Comments on: Earliest use of the term “Semantic Web”?? http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/ Weblog for the Mindswap research group at University of Maryland Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:41:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Links vom 14.03.2007 at Florian Altherr, Mainz http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-21191 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:54:59 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-21191 [...] 16 - (tags: Mindswap Weblog » Blog Archive » Earliest use of the term “Semantic Web”??) [...] […] 16 - (tags: Mindswap Weblog » Blog Archive » Earliest use of the term “Semantic Web”??) […]

]]> by: karl http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-9278 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:02:32 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-9278 The reference that Dan Brickley is quoting too contains Semantic Web since the first edit "Wed Oct 14 20:17:13 1998 UTC" The reference that Dan Brickley is quoting too contains Semantic Web since the first edit “Wed Oct 14 20:17:13 1998 UTC”

]]> by: Rich Boakes http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8644 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:15:26 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8644 The earliest TimBL/W3C reference I've spotted is from the 4th WWW Conference in Boston, June 1995: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Talks/INET95/Semantics.html" rel="nofollow">W3C and the Future</a>. The earliest TimBL/W3C reference I’ve spotted is from the 4th WWW Conference in Boston, June 1995: W3C and the Future.

]]> by: Dan Brickley http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8571 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:10:54 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8571 OK I found the 1997 reference to a recognisably modern usage of "Semantic Web", http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/SemanticWeb.html I made an archival copy of this 5 years ago, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Nov/0090.html see notes there. Semantic Web vision paper © 1997 Alexander Chislenko. - Version 0.28 - 29 June, 1997 """This document describes my vision of semantic/content-aware/intelligent Web, and its development from simple meta-tag processing to globally distributed AI services. The text is gradually taking shape while I am collecting thoughts and studying the resources. The Web is probably the richest information repository in human history, but most of its information is passive and unstructured. The Web doesn't know what it carries and for what purpose, and the users cannot specify what they want from it. There are some sites that use structured information storage and queries, but they are just little islands of order in the chaotic sea of information, not communicating to each other. Since 1995, there started appearing various proposals for meta-data representation and communication standards, and other services and tools that may eventually merge into the global Semantic Web. Hopefully, in the next few years we will see universal adoption of open standards for representation and sharing of meta-information. """ I don't believe there's any causal connection between his usage of "Semantic Web" and the phrase at W3C (tho TimBL et al may want to correct me on that). This 1997 paper does a good job of citing contributions from various direction: the work on XML, MCF, Dublin Core, SHOE, and various other systems which led to the technologies we call "Semantic Web" today. Dan OK I found the 1997 reference to a recognisably modern usage of “Semantic Web”,

http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/SemanticWeb.html
I made an archival copy of this 5 years ago,
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Nov/0090.html see notes there.
Semantic Web vision paper © 1997 Alexander Chislenko. - Version 0.28 - 29 June, 1997

“”"This document describes my vision of semantic/content-aware/intelligent Web, and its development from simple meta-tag processing to globally distributed AI services. The text is gradually taking shape while I am collecting thoughts and studying the resources.

The Web is probably the richest information repository in human history, but most of its information is passive and unstructured. The Web doesn’t know what it carries and for what purpose, and the users cannot specify what they want from it. There are some sites that use structured information storage and queries, but they are just little islands of order in the chaotic sea of information, not communicating to each other.

Since 1995, there started appearing various proposals for meta-data representation and communication standards, and other services and tools that may eventually merge into the global Semantic Web. Hopefully, in the next few years we will see universal adoption of open standards for representation and sharing of meta-information. “”"

I don’t believe there’s any causal connection between his usage of “Semantic Web” and the phrase at W3C (tho TimBL et al may want to correct me on that). This 1997 paper does a good job of citing contributions from various direction: the work on XML, MCF, Dublin Core, SHOE, and various other systems which led to the technologies we call “Semantic Web” today.

Dan

]]> by: LH http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8502 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:25:36 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8502 What about this one: F. H. George , Epistemology and the Problem of Perception. In: Mind, New Series, Vol. 66, No. 264. (Oct., 1957), pp. 491-506, with "semantic web" mentioned on page 500. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-4423%28195710%292%3A66%3A264%3C491%3AEATPOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 What about this one: F. H. George , Epistemology and the Problem of Perception. In: Mind, New Series, Vol. 66, No. 264. (Oct., 1957), pp. 491-506, with “semantic web” mentioned on page 500. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-4423%28195710%292%3A66%3A264%3C491%3AEATPOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4

]]> by: Rafael Sidi http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8494 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:51:44 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8494 Here is a mention of Semantic Web from 1993 in Engineering Village http://www.engineeringvillage2.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=blogDocument&MID=inspec_base904552126&DATABASE=ins Here is a mention of Semantic Web from 1993 in Engineering Village http://www.engineeringvillage2.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=blogDocument&MID=inspec_base904552126&DATABASE=ins

]]> by: Rafael Sidi http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8493 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:51:11 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8493 Here is a mention of Semantic Web from 199 in Engineering Village http://www.engineeringvillage2.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=blogDocument&MID=inspec_base904552126&DATABASE=ins Here is a mention of Semantic Web from 199 in Engineering Village http://www.engineeringvillage2.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=blogDocument&MID=inspec_base904552126&DATABASE=ins

]]> by: Dan Brickley http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8490 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:24:52 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8490 I remember arriving at W3C MIT late summer 1999, and I think in Oct/Nov that year contrib'd to a draft of the charter for a "Semantic Web Activity" building on the previous "Metadata Activity" that gave us RDF. So the phrase was already in use in the corridors of MIT in last months of 1999. It's from before my time. The key reference at the time was http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html and that doesn't seem to have been edited recently, if the CVS ID in there is reliable. It mentions "Semantic Web" in the title. The phrase was also used by a russian chap whose name escapes me, possibly earlier (1997 or so). It was the same basic concept but I think an independent usage. Sadly he died some while ago, ... I think I put an archive of his page in the www-archive@w3.org list somewhere. I can't get to google or yahoo search right now so I'll give up by now. I think the domain might have been lucifer.org or .com, not sure. I also recall ILRT folk from the DESIRE project had a poster at WWW 2000 with "Semantic Web" in it, though them was less machine reasoning, and more Metadata, human cataloguing of Web pages. The WWW94 slides from TimBL that we mutated into the SWAD-Europe t-shirt I think might have mentioned Semantics, ... but not not SemWeb. I don't have link to hand tho... I remember arriving at W3C MIT late summer 1999, and I think in Oct/Nov that year contrib’d to a draft of the charter for a “Semantic Web Activity” building on the previous “Metadata Activity” that gave us RDF. So the phrase was already in use in the corridors of MIT in last months of 1999. It’s from before my time.

The key reference at the time was http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html and that doesn’t seem to have been edited recently, if the CVS ID in there is reliable. It mentions “Semantic Web” in the title.

The phrase was also used by a russian chap whose name escapes me, possibly earlier (1997 or so). It was the same basic concept but I think an independent usage. Sadly he died some while ago, … I think I put an archive of his page in the www-archive@w3.org list somewhere. I can’t get to google or yahoo search right now so I’ll give up by now. I think the domain might have been lucifer.org or .com, not sure.

I also recall ILRT folk from the DESIRE project had a poster at WWW 2000 with “Semantic Web” in it, though them was less machine reasoning, and more Metadata, human cataloguing of Web pages.

The WWW94 slides from TimBL that we mutated into the SWAD-Europe t-shirt I think might have mentioned Semantics, … but not not SemWeb. I don’t have link to hand tho…

]]> by: James Hendler http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8482 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:45:08 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8482 (oops, Tim's reply came in while I was blogging my response above -- Tim, my apologies for somehow missing your blog on this) (oops, Tim’s reply came in while I was blogging my response above — Tim, my apologies for somehow missing your blog on this)

]]> by: James Hendler http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8481 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:43:53 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/12/27/earliest-use-of-the-term-semantic-web/#comment-8481 Maybe, but someone reminded me that Tim Finin had recently blogged on this issue and mentioned a design document from Tim BL from 1997, and then someone el;se pointed me at TIm's talk from the first WWW conference where he mentioned semantics and the Web (1994) in the same sentence (I had done same around 95). So where "Semantics and the Web" morphed into "Semantic Web" is yet to be resolved - but it clearly seems to be from earlier than 99 or 01. Maybe, but someone reminded me that Tim Finin had recently blogged on this issue and mentioned a design document from Tim BL from 1997, and then someone el;se pointed me at TIm’s talk from the first WWW conference where he mentioned semantics and the Web (1994) in the same sentence (I had done same around 95). So where “Semantics and the Web” morphed into “Semantic Web” is yet to be resolved - but it clearly seems to be from earlier than 99 or 01.

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