Monday, June 13, 2005

Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues 

Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues
"Shortly stated, information sharing, rather than information processing, is IT's primary goal in the 21st century. Not that it is a new concern. It has been there since data has been made processable by a computer. What is (relatively) new is the focus on semantics, which takes the issue far beyond the syntactic functionality provided by exchange standards or standard formatting `a la XML. The reason that makes semantics re-emerge so strongly is that now information has to be sharable in an open environment, where interacting agents do not necessarily share a common understanding of the world at hand, as used to be the case in traditional enterprise information systems."

The emphasis is mine

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