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The Semantic Web has managed to produce an enormous buzzword. However, despite it cannot be considered a new technology anymore, it didn’t fly off yet, and has remained unexpressed in its potentials. In this article we try to analyze the possible reasons, and also the tension that the Semantic Web has with XML. We emphasize the need for consideration of the more comprehensive social environment, together with a more formal modeling of the mechanics of the Web and its information flows.
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Marchiori, M. (2007). How to Talk to a Human: The Semantic Web and the Clash of the Titans. In: Puebla, G. (eds) Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4407. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71410-1_1
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