The Semantic Web would be impossible without the advent of simple and efficient communication networks that allow any user connected to the Web to access any public Semantic Web site without effort, very efficiently and extremely fast (most of the time). The basis for this ease of access is a very simple data format for specifying Semantic Web pages and a very simple communication protocol for their access. Both can be easily implemented on any computing platform. This ease of implementation ensures that everybody can participate independent of their particular computing equipment.
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(2008). Communication. In: The Semantic Web. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76452-6_8
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