15.417 cfp on the "semantic web"

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 417.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
                  <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

             Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:39:20 +0000
             From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
             Subject: "The Semantic Web": Call for papers for special issue of
    "Information Research"

    NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
    News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
    from across the Community
    December 20, 2001

                        CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Semantic Web"
                      Special Issue of "Information Research"
                            http://informationr.net/ir/

    >From: Terry Brooks <tabrooks@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
    >To: "'asis-l@asis.org'" <asis-l@asis.org>
    >>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:36:46 -0800

    Call for papers - "The Semantic Web" - a special issue of Information
    Research: an international electronic journal (http://informationr.net/ir/)

    Increasing the intelligibility of the Web is a compelling vision.
    Imagine how the utility of local data could be enhanced if they were
    Meaningfully linked to data posted by strangers far away. The Web could
    evolve into a comprehensive meaning system, a universal encyclopedia or
    "world brain," as prophesied by H.G. Wells.

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is actively promoting the Semantic
    Web as an extension of the current Web, but one in which information will
    Be given well-defined meaning thus facilitating the cooperation between
    computers and people. The crucial first step is to increase the
    functionality of Web machines to "understand" the data that they
    merely display at present.

    This call is for papers that discuss the challenges of transforming
    the current Web into a meaning space. The scope of discussion extends
    from technical challenges, such as affixing meaning to an XML (Extensible
    Markup Language) source, to linguistic and cultural barriers, such as the
    development of semantic tags that will be widely accepted and validly
    used.

    Questions and proposals for papers should be sent to the editor of the
    special issue:

    Dr. Terrence A. Brooks
    The Information School
    University of Washington
    Box 352840
    Seattle, WA 98195-2840
    voice: 206 543-2646
    fax: 206 616-3152
    e-mail: tabrooks@u.washington.edu
    web: http://faculty.washington.edu/tabrooks/

    Completed papers should be received by 31st May 2002, but questions
    about the suitability of proposed papers may be sent to the Issue
    Editor at any time. The style guide for Information Research is
    found at http://informationr.net/ir/author1.html A link to a template
    file can be found on that page.

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