Realization of semantic Web relies primarily on the following core technologies: XML, URIs, RDF, Web services, ontologies, and intelligent agents.
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Semantic E-Business Challenges and Directions
Giorgos Laskaridis (University of Athens, Greece), Konstantinos Markellos (University of Patras, Greece), Penelope Markellou (University of Patras, Greece), Angeliki Panayiotaki (University of Patras, Greece), and Athanasios Tsakalidis (University of Patras, Greece)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch187
Abstract
The emergence of semantic Web opens up boundless new opportunities for e-business. According to Tim Berners-Lee, Hendler, and Lassila (2001), “the semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation”. A more formal definition by W3C (2001) refers that, “the semantic Web is the representation of data on the World Wide Web. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the resource description framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for syntax and uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for naming”. The capability of the semantic Web to add meaning to information, stored in such way that it can be searched and processed as well as recent advances in semantic Web-based technologies provide the mechanisms for semantic knowledge representation, exchange and collaboration of e-business processes and applications.