... to serve with each course of the following menu. And, by the way, I don't like Sauterne." It would be difficult today to construct a Web agent that would be capable of performing a search for wines on the web that satisfied this query. [...]

Ontology is a term borrowed from philosophy that refers to the science of describing the kinds of entities in the world and how they are related. In OWL, an ontology is a set of definitions of classes and properties, and constraints on the way those classes and properties can be employed. [...] A set of OWL assertions loaded into a reasoning system is called a knowledge base (KB).

Un document tout juste publié par le W3C, compliments de Downes. On s'attend, à juste raison, à une consultation aride et un document technique dans son ensemble. Pourtant les explications sont claires, les analogies engageantes (qu'y puis-je, j'adore le vin!) et dans l'ensemble la rationelle aisée à suivre. J'en suis encore surpris.

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