Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Towards a Semantic Web for Culture (15 Mar 2004) Today's semantic Web deals with meaning in a very restricted sense and offers static solutions. This is adequate for many scientific, technical purposes and for business transactions requiring machine-to-machine communication, but does not answer the needs of culture. Science, technology and business are concerned primarily with the latest findings, the state of the art, i.e. the paradigm or dominant world-view of the day. In this context, history is considered non-essential because it deals with things that are out of date. Article URL: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Veltman/ Read 47 more articles from Journal of Digital Information sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Why Consumer Products Have Inferior User Experience This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy