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Science 24 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5606, pp. 520 - 521
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078874
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Policy Forum

COMMUNICATION:
Enhanced: Science and the Semantic Web

James Hendler

As modern science grows in complexity and scope, the need for more collaboration between scientists at different institutions, in different areas, and across scientific disciplines becomes increasingly important. An emerging generation of World Wide Web technology, known as the Semantic Web, offers tremendous potential for collaborative and interdisciplinary science. However, to realize this potential, scientists and information technologists must forge new models of cooperation, and new thinking must go into the funding and dissemination of this next generation of scientific tools on the Web.

The author is in the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: hendler{at}cs.umd.edu

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