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Not surprisingly, everyone perceives the Semantic Web in a different way. One view is that the Semantic Web is about semantics, and semantics is about AIstyle knowledge representation, which leads to knowledge representation languages like OWL.
Another view is that the Semantic Web is about overcoming the syntax of data so that users and developers can concentrate on the semantics of information. Following this view means that languages and tools for the Semantic Web must focus on practical problems rather than generic KR tasks. That is, they should make it easier and cheaper to publish, understand, use, and reuse data and services on the Web in an interoperable and scalable way. Languages that help define how different data sets and vocabularies relate to each other are necessary; they are able to provide the glue between (distributed) information systems and data sets. Following this view also has consequences for designing rule languages for the Semantic Web.
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Decker, S. (2005). Use Cases for Reasoning with Metadata or What Have Web Services to Do with Integrity Constraints?. In: Fages, F., Soliman, S. (eds) Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning. PPSWR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3703. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552222_11
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