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Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?
January/February 2008 (vol. 12 no. 1)
pp. 75-79
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Christoph Bussler, "Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 75-79, January/February, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2008.16,
author = {Christoph Bussler},
title = {Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {12},
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issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2008},
pages = {75-79},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2008.16},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Christoph Bussler, Consultant
Although the Semantic Web vision has spawned an entire academic discipline and considerable research and development effort is focused on the subject, the results are much less impressive in terms of actual applications. Bussler’s architectural analysis suggests why and that SWT is headed for a disaster unless there is a change of course.

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Index Terms:
Semantic Web, application architecture, Semantic Web services, enterprise application integration, EAI, business-to-business, B2B
Citation:
Christoph Bussler, "Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 75-79, Jan.-Feb. 2008, doi:10.1109/MIC.2008.16
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