The emerging semantic web : selected papers from the first semantic web working symposium

The Semantic Web is a Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but also for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. In order for computers to provide more help to people, the Semantic Web augments the current Web with formalized knowledge and data that can be processed by computers. It thus needs a language for expressing knowledge. This knowledge is used to describe the content of information sources, through ontologies, and the condition of operation of Web services. This work presents the state-of-the-art in the development of the principles and technologies that will enable the Semantic Web to become a reality.