Interpretations of the Web of Data Export

@article{rodriguez09interpretations, abstract = {The emerging Web of Data utilizes the web infrastructure to represent and interrelate data. The foundational standards of the Web of Data include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). URIs are used to identify resources and RDF is used to relate resources. While RDF has been posited as a logic language designed specifically for knowledge representation and reasoning, it is more generally useful if it can conveniently support other models of computing. In order to realize the Web of Data as a general-purpose medium for storing and processing the world's data, it is necessary to separate RDF from its logic language legacy and frame it simply as a data model. Moreover, there is significant advantage in seeing the Semantic Web as a particular interpretation of the Web of Data that is focused specifically on knowledge representation and reasoning. By doing so, other interpretations of the Web of Data are exposed that realize RDF in different capacities and in support of different computing models.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Rodriguez, Marko A.}, citeulike-article-id = {5042907}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3378}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.3378}, day = {21}, eprint = {0905.3378}, keywords = {knowledge-representation, linked-data, rdf, semweb}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 16:10:21}, priority = {0}, title = {Interpretations of the Web of Data}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3378}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - rodriguez09interpretations L3 - citeulike-article-id:5042907 N2 - The emerging Web of Data utilizes the web infrastructure to represent and interrelate data. The foundational standards of the Web of Data include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). URIs are used to identify resources and RDF is used to relate resources. While RDF has been posited as a logic language designed specifically for knowledge representation and reasoning, it is more generally useful if it can conveniently support other models of computing. In order to realize the Web of Data as a general-purpose medium for storing and processing the world's data, it is necessary to separate RDF from its logic language legacy and frame it simply as a data model. Moreover, there is significant advantage in seeing the Semantic Web as a particular interpretation of the Web of Data that is focused specifically on knowledge representation and reasoning. By doing so, other interpretations of the Web of Data are exposed that realize RDF in different capacities and in support of different computing models. TI - Interpretations of the Web of Data KW - knowledge-representation KW - linked-data KW - rdf KW - semweb AU - Rodriguez, Marko PY - 2009/May/21/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3378 ER -