Abstract :
The semantic Web extends the current Web with a semantic layer, which semantic-aware agents can use for reasoning. The idea is to enable a greater degree of task automation and user support than is possible with the current Web. Yet the semantic Web has implications for knowledge publishing and access. An ontology-driven world might lead to the imposition of dominant conceptual viewpoints on formal knowledge production, which might threaten the democratic nature of knowledge publishing on the Web. However, the author argue that this won\´t necessarily happen, if we fully exploit the inherent flexibility and "smartness" associated with semantic technologies, and we succeed in connecting the semantic Web\´s construction process to the social dynamics shaping the current Web
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; formal knowledge production; ontology-driven system; semantic Web; semantic-aware agents; sociotechnological analysis; Digital cameras; Intelligent systems; Large-scale systems; OWL; Ontologies; Predictive models; Publishing activities; Resource description framework; Robustness; Semantic Web; Semantic Web; knowledge representation; ontologies; publishing; semantics; sociotechnological issues;
