Information Sharing on the Semantic Web

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing. The more information is available, the harder it is to locate any particular piece of it. And even when it has been successfully found, it is even harder still to usefully combine it with other information we may already possess.

It is commonly understood that this problem of information sharing can only be solved by giving computers better access to the semantics of the inf...