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The semantic web is automatons

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15 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/15/the-semantic-web-is-automatons/

A lot has been said over the past few years about the semantic web, which is a way of assigning machine-readable meaning to information on the Internet. In theory, were this to work and be widely used, the benefits to search and research would be immense. Unfortunately, it also involves embracing a complicated set of technologies [...]

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