Semantics: Revolutionary Breakthrough or Just Another Way of Doing Things?

It sometimes feels like an uphill battle to explain why an organization should embrace semantic technology rather than continue to rely on relational databases and application programming in object-oriented languages. In this chapter, we review the formal foundations of various representations, and evaluate them against five criteria: understandability of the models, availability of information for retrieval, ability to infer new information which is provably correct, interoperability, and the ability of the data to speak to minds and machines alike with a shared semantics.

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