"Activities such as XML Web Services and the Semantic Web are trying to create a web of machine readable data. This Web is envisioned to be analogous to the current World Wide Web (WWW), except it will consist of machine readable data. This has the potential for having as big an impact as the human readable web. However, given the differences between machines and humans, this web will not a simple replacement of human readable formats (such as HTML and images) with machine readable formats (such as XML and RDF).
A number of problems will need to be solved before the vision can be realized. We are working on some of these problems. More specifically, we are working on the following:
- Query Interfaces & Publishing
- Semantic Negotiation
- Trust
- Caching
- Applications
Our research is conducted in the context of TAPache, a system we have built for easily publishing and consuming data on this new Web. Source code is available under the BSD license. We have also built TAP KB, an experimental knowledge base about people (musicians, actors, sports figures, etc.), places, products, etc. The knowledge base is available under the TAP KB License which is similar to the Open Directory Project License. "
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