Silver Oliver How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions [ABSTRACT]
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7th October 2008

By Silver Oliver

Abstract

Much has been said on the topic of the Semantic Web, but it's not always easy to gauge how it will change the way we work. Silver Oliver provides an overview of how the Semantic Web will affect users and applications, not to mention the role of the information professional.

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Much has been said on the topic of the Semantic Web, but it's not always easy to gauge how it will change the way we work. Silver Oliver provides an overview of how the Semantic Web will affect users and applications, not to mention the role of the information professional.

What's Inside

Does this mean we will all need to become ontologists? Probably no more than we are all taxonomists at the moment. That is, you don't need to know how to build them so much as how to apply them to a domain. In fact we might need to develop our user-centred design skills as much as our ontology-building ones.

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