Semantic web technology: the foundation for future enterprise systems

Abstract
The semantic web is an extension of the cu rrent web in which data and web resources is given more meaning by incorporating metadata . The incorporation of metadata lead s to an improved utilization of web resou r ces by soft ware applications, which will be acting on behalf of h u man users. In this paper we introduce the semantic web technologies, specifically RDF, RDF Schema and OWL tha t have be en recommend ed by the W3C. Particularly , we encourage the Ken y an web de v e loper to use these se ma ntic langua ges in addition to HTML in their projects.
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Paper presented at ICT confrence of 2006
The semantic web is an extension of the current web in which data and web resources is given more meaning by incorporating metadata. The incorporation of metadata leads to an improved utilization of web resources by software applications, which will be acting on behalf of human users. In this paper we introduce the semantic web technologies, specifically RDF, RDF Schema and OWL that have been recommended by the W3C. Particularly, we encourage the Kenyan web developer to use these semantic languages in addition to HTML in their projects.
Keywords
Semantic Web, Web Ontologies, RDF
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