Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

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In his vision the computer would know exactly what “booking a restaurant

reservation” meant, as well as all the underlying tasks associated with it. For

example, you could ask the computer to book a reservation at an Indian res-

taurant on the way home from work, and the computer would find an Indian

restaurant located directly on your way home, book a reservation for you, and

put it automatically on your calendar, all without human intervention.

In the context of searching for documents, a semantic web would be able

to understand what the documents contained. Today, we rely mostly on docu-

ment titles ...