Jim Hendler, a University of Maryland professor, is the Director of Semantic Web and agent technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. A fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Jim was formerly chief scientist for information systems at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and cochairs the Web Ontology Working Group for the W3C. He has authored close to 150 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, agent-based computing and high performance processing. Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board and is a prominent player in the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Activity.
XML-based formats are now becoming the dominant way of marking up data on the
Web. There are standard XML languages for hypertext (XHTML), graphics (SVG),
syndication (RSS), multimedia (SMIL), service description and discovery (WSDL
and UDDI), and many others, not to mention a plethora of more specialized,
often ad hoc, XML-based languages.
Furthermore, there are standard ways to query (XPath and XQuery), link into
(XLink and XPointer), and parse and program with (SAX, and DOM) your XML
documents. Finally, integration with the many other XML formats can be done
in a reasonably straightforward manner either by inclusion (using XML
Namespaces) or transformation (using XSLT).
XML as an Interchange Mechanism
Given these facts, it's hard to argue against XML as the interchange
mechanism for the Web. But the XML model remains primarily rooted in
documents - in particular,... (more)
Jim Hendler, a University of Maryland professor, is the Director of Semantic Web and agent technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. A fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Jim was formerly chief scientist for information systems at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and cochairs the Web Ontology Working Group for the W3C. He has authored close to 150 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, agent-based computing and high performance processing. Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board and is a prominent player in the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Activity.
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