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Web--The Future Tim Berners-Lee & Others Explain the Semantic Web
Source: Scientific American
Key Passage, "The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. Such an agent coming to the clinic's Web page will know not just that the page has keywords such as "treatment, medicine, physical, therapy" (as might be encoded today) but also that Dr. Hartman works at this clinic on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and that the script takes a date range in yyyy-mm-dd format and returns appointment times...The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The first steps in weaving the Semantic Web into the structure of the existing Web are already under way. In the near future, these developments will usher in significant new functionality as machines become much better able to process and "understand" the data that they merely display at present."
Environment--Toxic Releases--United States Environment--Databases--Invisible Web 1999 Toxic Release Data Now Online
"Today the Environmental Protection Agency is releasing the 1999 Toxics Release Inventory data, providing the public with the latest data on releases of chemicals in their communities. Access to the data is available via several sources including the TRS Explorer.
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Online Teaching Tool--National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) Exploring Themes in American Art
From the site, "Learn about themes in American Art through these illustrated essays on abstraction, the figure, historical subjects, landscape painting, marine painting, portraiture, narrative art, scenes from everyday life, still life, and topographical views. Adapted from the interactive videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art, one of the Gallery's free-loan educational programs, this feature also includes artist biographies, a glossary, and bibliographic references."
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