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Description of Semantic Web (was Re: Is it just me...)

  • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • To: xml-dev@x...
  • Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:15:55 -0400

Description of Semantic Web (was Re: Is it just me...)
At 09:19 AM 10/19/00 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote:
>At 10:42 PM 10/18/00 -0700, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
>>Do I understand right this means you can point me to some
>>W3C document describing the design of  the new 'semantics'
>>web?
>
>To my knowledge, and I think I've been paying attention since the last W3C 
>AC meeting, is that there is no such document.
>The semantic web is an idea of TBL, and is primarily in Tim's brain, and 
>takes lots of education, and then buy in, and then a decision of what to do 
>about it. He doesn't have a magic fairy wand to just turn everything into 
>his vision -- which may or may not be a good one, it's way too early to 
>decide.

It's not an official W3C document, and is written for non-specialists, but
there's enough in Tim's "Weaving the Web" book to at least see an outline.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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