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In this article, I describe the basic technologies for Semantic Web and relationship between Semantic Web and Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Web is planned as an extension of the current web in order to help cooperation between computers and humans, i.e., computers and humans are expected to understand each other in the knowledge level. I first describe the vision of the Semantic Web, then introduce the current Semantic Web technologies, i.e., RDF, RDFS, and OWL. I describe relationship between the trend of Semantic Web and Knowledge Representation, and clarify challenges and difficulties of Semantic Web from the point of view of Knowledge Representation.
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Hideaki Takeda: He is a professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII) and a professor in Department of Informatics at the Graduate University of Advanced Studies (Sokendai). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1991. His research interest in computer science includes ontology engineering, community informatics and knowledge sharing systems.
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Takeda, H. Semantic Web: A road to the knowledge infrastructure on the internet. New Gener Comput 22, 395–413 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037289
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