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To realize potential of the Semantic Web, scientists and information technologists must forge new models of cooperation and new thinking must go into the funding and dissemination of this next generation of scientific tools on the Web.
As modern science grows in complexity and scope, the need for more collaboration between scientists at different institutions, in different areas, and across scientific disciplines becomes increasingly important. An emerging generation of World Wide Web technology known as the Semantic Web offers tremendous potential for collaborative and interdisciplinary science. However, to realize this potential, scientists and information technologists must forge new models of cooperation and new thinking must go into the funding and dissemination of this next generation of scientific tools on the Web. This article outlines several such tools.
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World Wide Web Consortium, Resource Description Format, http://www.w3c.org/RDF.
B.V. Aduna, OpenRDF, http://www.openrdf.org/about.jsp, 2005.
Jena Framework, http://jena.sourceforge.net/, 2005.
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(2008). Semantics Web Tools and Technologies. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_217
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