The exponential growth of available material on the World Wide Web has created the challenge of how to get meaningful information and knowledge out of it. This is because resource discovery varies depending on the structure, type and content of the resource, and on the interests of the information keepers. Furthermore, the information needs of users are often complex; and this requires that information and knowledge be drawn from distributed archives and systems in different domains. The notion of the semantic web defines this goal, and various initiatives are underway to improve resource discovery and knowledge mining.

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