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March 2004 (vol. 5 no. 3)
pp. 4
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Semantic Web aims to enrich the Web with a layer of machine-interpretable metadata so that computer programs can predictably derive new information. This goal will require the development of metadata syntax and vocabularies, and the creation of metadata for lots of Web pages.

Index Terms:
Semantic Web, data integration, intelligent support
Citation:
Frank van Harmelen, "The Semantic Web: What, Why, How, and When," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4, Mar. 2004, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2004.1285880
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