Nature Network

The Semantic Web is based on the relatively straightforward idea that to be able to integrate (link) data on the Web we must have some mechanism for knowing what relationships hold among the data, and how that relates to some "real world" context. The following is a lot of detail that comes from this simple idea.

To answer this question properly, let me start back in the early Web era. While I'm going to do some potentially boring personal history, I'll note the key ideas as I go along.

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