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‘Universal access to all knowledge can be one of our greatest achievements’, according to Brewster Kahle. There have been various efforts to categorise world knowledge and to leverage this using semantic technologies, e.g. through Wikipedia and the DBpedia, and with Cycorp (developers of the Cyc knowledge base of common-sense knowledge) joining the Linking Open Data initiative via their OpenCyc project. There have also been some successes in various question and answering systems with pieces of knowledge that can be mined and found.
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Breslin, J.G., Passant, A., Decker, S. (2009). Knowledge and information sharing. In: The Social Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01172-6_6
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