On 8/23/13 10:10 AM, Denny Vrandečić wrote:

TBL coined the term "semantic web" at latest in 1994, probably even before (I don't have Weaving the Web at hand, but here are TBL's slides from the WWW conference in 1994: <http://www.w3.org/Talks/WWW94Tim/>)
Fact of the matter is that the original design of the Web was always about a Semantic Web of Interlinked Data that would manifest as a Giant Global Graph accessible via Internet [1][2] :-)

Links:

1. http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/w3c/Image1.gif -- original diagram illustrating the concept 2. http://bit.ly/10Y9FL1 -- tweaked version of original WWW proposal diagram with de-referencable URIs anchoring the literal identifiers that denote links/relations. 3. http://bit.ly/16EVFVG -- venn showing what ended up being conflated as a result of Semantic Web Project related problems (too many) 4. http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215 -- Giant Global Graph post.

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