Dagstuhl-Seminar: Semantics for the WWW
Dieter Fensel, James Hendler, Henry Lieberman, Wolfgang Wahlster · 2000
Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points in a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions called the World Wide Web (WWW). Therefore support in data, information, and knowledge exchange becomes the key issue in current computer technology. The WWW has drastically changed the availability of electronically available information. However, this success and exponential grow makes it increasingly difficult to find, to access, to present, and to maintain the information of use to a wide variety of users. In reaction to this bottleneck many new research initiatives and commercial enterprises have been set up to enrich available information with machine processable semantics. Such support is essential for “bringing the web to its full potential”. This semantic web will provide intelligent access to heterogeneous and distributed information enabling software products (agents) to mediate between the user needs and the available information sources. The report summarizes a Dagstuhl seminar on these topics that was held during March 2000 in Dagstuhl, Germany.