Table of contents

Weaving Your Own Semantic Web

“Information at your fingertips”

The status quo

The origins of the Web

The future of the Web

Oh, the possibilities!

Lingua franca

Agents

Déjà vu?

Problem #1: information

Problem #2: “Grandma”

Problem #3: the web monkey

The generation gap

RDF to the rescue

Web monkeys like toys

Toys that let users play

Making use of the toys

Sharing your toys

Client? Server? What’s the difference?

A fantasy?

Exercises for the reader

Author: Dennis Quan

E-mail: dquan@ai.mit.edu