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Semantic Cognition and the Ontological to Epistemic Transformation: Using Technologies to Facilitate Understanding

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To appreciate the science of semantics and the implications of semantic technologies, it is important to understand the capacity of the human mind to create meaning. Human cognition and perception lay at the heart of the semantic wave of technological developments. One of the reasons why semantic and Web 3.0 technologies are important to human performance is partly because of what has become known as information or cognitive overload—where humans work way too hard for the computer rather than the other way around. Data integration middleware, business process management software, data warehouses, and data mining technologies have enabled the gathering of data from disparate sources and making those data available to human consumers. While these and “big data” technologies in general have facilitated the ontological (data availability) aspects of human problem-solving and decision-making, they have complicated the epistemological (meaning-making) aspects of those activities. Semantic and Web 3.0 technologies are forming a foundation of what we might call an ontological to epistemic transformation.

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