Chientai is forming some thoughts on the semantic web. Some great thinking here which I will post in there entirety, unless he complains after which I will remove, just in case the company server he runs his blog on disappears forever.

"The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me." -- Dan Connolly, "The XML Revolution"

I do not 100% agree with his opinion. For example, the computer can record my anniversary and then order and send flowers to my wife on the very time. But I don't think it will be a bane of my life to send the flowers by my own.

Even though that, it still tells something true. It is unreasonable to create a useful tool and you still do the jobs the tool can do for you.

If we human being want to make any progress, just like Sir Isaac Newton said, it is necessary to stand on giants' shoulder. I think the Web is one of the giants. And what does the "stand on" mean, I think that means using, combining, integrating and recreating.

More than 10 years' developing, the Web has gathered enormous information. People and variant systems had been cooperating to create every kind of content. It is time to think how to reuse and integrate them.

I belief that Semantic is one the easiest way to fulfill this idea. Can you imagine that internet has formed a giant tower and you want build something on it. Would you go downstairs to collect the materials you need? No, it is impossible. So you have set down some kind of mechanism to let machines (or agents) to do that for you. You have to make those materials the paths known by those machines.

To make the Web known by agents and machine-process able is "Semantic".

@itri:::8:30~18:00:::: Time to Know Semantic Web

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