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The content of conventional web sites is human-readable only, which is unsuitable for automatic processing and inefficient when searching for related information. Web datasets can be considered as isolated data silos that are not linked to each other. This limitation can be addressed by organizing and publishing data, using powerful formats that add structure and meaning to the content of web pages and link related data to one another. Computers can “understand” such data better, which can be useful for task automation.
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Exif or XMP. For more information, see Leslie Sikos: Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML (New York, Apress, 2014).
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The concept of “thing” is used in other contexts as well, such as in the “Internet of Things” (IoT), which is the network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, and sensors, including smart objects such as wearable computers, all of which are connected to the manufacturer and/or the operator, and/or other devices.
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Sikos, L.F. (2015). Introduction to the Semantic Web. In: Mastering Structured Data on the Semantic Web. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1049-9_1
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