!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is an extension of the [World Wide Web] through standards by the [World Wide Web Consortium] ([W3C])[{$pagename}] [standards] promote common data formats and exchange protocols on the Web. "The [{$pagename}] provides a common [framework] that allows [data] to be shared and reused across [application], enterprise, and community boundaries". The [{$pagename}] is therefore regarded as an integrator across different content, information [applications] and systems.
 

[{$pagename}] involves publishing in languages specifically designed for data: 
* [Resource Description Framework] ([RDF])
* [Web Ontology Language] ([OWL])
* [Extensible Markup Language] ([XML])
* [Web Linking] ([Atom]) 
[HTML] describes documents and the [links] between them. [RDF], [OWL], and [XML], by contrast, can describe arbitrary things such as people, meetings, or airplane parts.These technologies are combined in order to provide descriptions that supplement or replace the content of Web documents. Thus, content may manifest itself as descriptive data stored in Web-accessible [databases], or as markup within documents. The machine-readable descriptions enable content managers to add meaning to the content, i.e., to describe the structure of the knowledge we have about that [content]. In this way, a machine can process knowledge itself, instead of text, using processes similar to human deductive reasoning and inference, thereby obtaining more meaningful results and helping computers to perform automated information gathering and research.

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