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On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues

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The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004 (ISWC 2004)

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The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and discussion most of which are centred around the underlying infrastructure. However, when we critically review the work done to date we realise that there is little discussion with respect to the vision of the Semantic Web. In particular, there is an observed dearth of discussion on how to deliver knowledge sharing in an environment such as the Semantic Web in effective and efficient manners. There are a lot of overlooked issues, associated with agents and trust to hidden assumptions made with respect to knowledge representation and robust reasoning in a distributed environment. These issues could potentially hinder further development if not considered at the early stages of designing Semantic Web systems. In this perspectives’ paper, we aim to help engineers and practitioners of the Semantic Web by raising awareness of these issues.

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  1. Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT), School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

    Yannis Kalfoglou & Harith Alani

  2. Escola de Tecnologies d’Informació i Comunicació, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain

    Marco Schorlemmer

  3. Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT), CISA, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Chris Walton

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Kalfoglou, Y., Alani, H., Schorlemmer, M., Walton, C. (2004). On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues. In: McIlraith, S.A., Plexousakis, D., van Harmelen, F. (eds) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004. ISWC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_40

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