Questions tagged [semantic-web]
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of data". It builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF).
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Is it hard to "add" semantic web to your website?
I am learning about the semantic web. So far what I know is that the whole idea of the semantic web is to add metadata to the data in your website in order to make the data in your website easier to ...
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How to design a meta model for configuration? [closed]
In our software we have a client/server architecture where the server is actually running on an embedded system with various hardware components (sensors, etc.). The different sensors as well as other ...
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How could an expert system get some meaning from a sentence? [closed]
How could an expert system tell following scenarios apart? How could we include some meaning of a sentence, if at all? A machine needs 1 day to produce x units, and, we know that two machines like ...
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Tools for modelling data and workflows using structured text files [closed]
Consider a case when I want to try some idea of an application. But I want to avoid investing a lot of effort in coding UI/work flows/database schema etc before I see that it's going to be useful to ...
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What is the connection between literate programming and the semantic web?
I was (casually) researching semantic / ontology based approaches to technical documentation, when I stumbled upon this gem: Literate Programming and the Semantic Web are ideas from different times, ...
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What's the difference between using RDFS/OWL versus XML?
I was wondering what advantages the ontology languages of RDFS/OWL has over using a tagging/markup system (such as http://www.schema.org/) for managing and creating metadata?
