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to talk about the Semantic Web if you're new to this subject and to do so I'm going to have to give you a brief history on information and in particular how information is connected so if we go back before the internet before the world wide web what you have is scientists and individuals writing long freeform documents that had references to other documents and those references were in the form of citations now as a consumer of one of these documents what you would have to do is read the citation and then send out via mail for a copy of the document or you'd have to go to your library and this was really tedious so from the point of view of the consumer what you really had was a world where there were tons of documents all over the place so I'm accessible to you some not accessible to you but that burden was on you in order to follow the citations now the web the great invention was the hyperlink so if I'm reading a document that has a hyperlink I can just click on that link and boom I