| | Crawling the Semantic Web |
 | | Rather than have web crawling and aggregation built into every semantic web application, agents will be able to call on aggregation services via webservices, be notified of new resources by publish-and-subscribe mechanisms, or simply receive a stream of RDF statements as they are found. |
 | | Crawling the semantic web is essentially identical to crawling the HTML content web - it's simply a case of choosing one or more starting points, downloading a resource and following the pointers in it to further resources. |
 | | Miller, Guha and McCool (http://www2003.org/cdrom/papers/refereed/p779/ess.html) give the example of combining data from a CD database, a music encyclopaedia, a geographic almanac and a weather database to answer the contrived query, "What is the current temperature in the town where the creator of the album 'Appalachian Journey' was born?". |
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