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03-24-2005, 01:13 PM
Through scenarios in the popular press and technical papers in the
research literature, the promise of the Semantic Web has raised a
number of different expectations. These expectations can be
traced to three different perspectives on the Semantic Web. The
Semantic Web is portrayed as: (1) a universal library, to be
readily accessed and used by humans in a variety of information
use contexts; (2) the backdrop for the work of computational
agents completing sophisticated activities on behalf of their
human counterparts; and (3) a method for federating particular
knowledge bases and databases to perform anticipated tasks for
humans and their agents. Each of these perspectives has both
theoretical and pragmatic entailments, and a wealth of past
experiences to guide and temper our expectations. In this paper,
we examine all three perspectives from rhetorical, theoretical, and
pragmatic viewpoints with an eye toward possible outcomes as
Semantic Web efforts move forward.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/ht03-sw-4.pdf
research literature, the promise of the Semantic Web has raised a
number of different expectations. These expectations can be
traced to three different perspectives on the Semantic Web. The
Semantic Web is portrayed as: (1) a universal library, to be
readily accessed and used by humans in a variety of information
use contexts; (2) the backdrop for the work of computational
agents completing sophisticated activities on behalf of their
human counterparts; and (3) a method for federating particular
knowledge bases and databases to perform anticipated tasks for
humans and their agents. Each of these perspectives has both
theoretical and pragmatic entailments, and a wealth of past
experiences to guide and temper our expectations. In this paper,
we examine all three perspectives from rhetorical, theoretical, and
pragmatic viewpoints with an eye toward possible outcomes as
Semantic Web efforts move forward.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/ht03-sw-4.pdf