The semantic web and end users: What's wrong and how to fix it

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 64-70

  Karger, David R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet technologies; Semantic Web; Web tools

Indexed keywords

END USERS; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; WEB TOOLS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 84908510386     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2014.124     Document Type: Article

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