7.0 Final Conclusion -The future of Web Semantics

Quote from http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/10/stutt-2004-10-disc-paper.html - Semantic Learning Webs - Arthur Stutt and Enrico Motta - Knowledge Media Institute - Open University -

"Though it is almost impossible to envisage what the Web will be like by the end of the next decade, we can say with some certainty that it will have continued its seemingly unstoppable growth. Given the investment of time and money in the Semantic Web ( Berners-Lee et al., 2001 ), we can also be sure that some form of semanticization will have taken place. This might be superficial -- accomplished simply through the addition of loose forms of meta-data mark-up, or more principled -- grounded in ontologies and formalised by means of emerging semantic web standards, such as RDF ( Lassila and Swick, 1999 ) or OWL (Mc Guinness and van Harmelen, 2003). Whatever the case, the addition of semantic mark-up will make at least part of the Web more readily accessible to humans and their software agents and will facilitate agent interoperability."

Quote from http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/10/stutt-2004-10-disc-paper.html - Semantic Learning Webs - Arthur Stutt and Enrico Motta - Knowledge Media Institute - Open University -

"If current research is successful there will also be a plethora of e-learning platforms making use of a varied menu of reusable educational material or learning objects. For the learner, the semanticized Web will, in addition, offer rich seams of diverse learning resources over and above the course materials (or learning objects) specified by course designers. For instance, the annotation registries, which provide access to marked up resources, will enable more focussed, ontologically-guided (or semantic) search. This much is already in development. But we can go much further. Semantic technologies make it possible not only to reason about the Web as if it is one extended knowledge base but also to provide a range of additional educational semantic web services such as summarization, interpretation or sense-making, structure-visualization, and support for argumentation."

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