The Permeable Web

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• A Ubiquitous Permeable Web
• Luxembourg Workshop on Knowledge Technologies
• Hamish Cunningham, Yorick Wilks Department of
  Computer Science, University of Sheffield
  http//gate.ac.uk/semweb.html May 15th
  2002
• The next generation of the web must be
• ubiquitous semantics for every device, every
  organisation, every individual
• permeable allow contextual data to penetrate
  and persist
• companionable able to engage with us via
  multiple natural modalities.
• This implies cross-disciplinary linkages with
  amongst others wearable and ambient computing,
  man-machine interface and 4th generation
  telecoms.

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• Critical Mass for the Semantic Web
• The SW machine processable, repurposable data
  to compliment hypertext
• But semantics 0.0000000... of the Web
• How to achieve critical mass? Huge scale
  automatic annotation. Requirements
• Huge scale freely available to all EU
  citizens distributed (over a Grid)
  re-purposeable (delivered as Web Services)
• Portability and robustness via simple and
  therefore shallow HLT methods ve and ve
  learning analogs of IPSEs for
  computer-literate users

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