
Foreword
Metadata and semantics for information search, integration and analysis
has been practiced for three decades. Conceptual modeling and knowledge
representation that enable rich description of information, and when needed
associated reasoning, have been with us for a while to o. But as the Web
brought much larger variety (heterogeneity) and size with it, coming together
of the s emantics, the Web technologies and all the data that goes with it, was
inevitable. Nearly a decade after Tim Berners-Lee coined the term Seman-
tic Web, it has transformed into a growing, important, and well recognized
interdisciplinary area of Computer Science. W3C’s ...