OpenCyc Brings Meaning to the Web

Description

DMN Newswire--2008-8-21--OpenCyc, a vast open-source knowledge base of concepts for the Web, was released publicly today by Cycorp, Inc. Using OpenCyc terms to represent Web content enables true semantic interoperability. While semantic Web standards such as RDF/OWL provide a unifying framework for meaningful information exchange among applications, without a substantial shared vocabulary these exchanges will be quite restricted. The OpenCyc concept ontology removes this barrier by providing an extensive network of terms, in forms that can be understood both by computers and humans, which ensures the applications will have something to talk about. Taken together, it is now possible to develop Web applications and mash-ups that understand, and can reason about, Web content as well as enterprise and personal data and meta-data.

Original URL

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=494401

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=494401