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Thus far, the emphasis in the semantic technology community has been on
the computer facet, forgetting the human. The rationale behind this emphasis
was that, in trying to figure out how to codify meaning, perhaps the computer
issue was the more difficult of the two. As the thinking goes, when this prob-
lem is solved, resolution of the human/semantic problem may follow easily.
However, we are finding that all our attempts to codify meaning using semantic
technology is leaving humans more and more confused. OWL code and XML,
after all, are not really human-friendly.
Yet the problem remains: how to best communicate the meaning and con-
text behind ...