Technically approaching the semantic web bottleneck

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-111

  Konstantinou, Nikolaos ^a   Spanos, Dimitrios Emmanuel ^b   Stavrou, Periklis ^b   Mitrou, Nikolas ^b  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Annotation; Linked data; Microformats; Search engines; Semantic web; Web engineering.

Indexed keywords

LINKED DATA; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

ANNOTATION; DRIVING FORCES; MATURITY LEVELS; MICROFORMATS; SEMANTIC CONTENT; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; WEB APPLICATION; WEB ENGINEERING;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77955975813     PISSN: 14761289     EISSN: 17419212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2010.034761     Document Type: Article

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