V 2001 godu Tim Berners-Li, osnovatel' Vsemirnoy pautiny (World Wide Web), predlozhil eshche odin revolyutsionnyy proekt sozdaniya semanticheskoy seti (Semantic Web) - global'noy seti, v kotoroy "ponimat'" informatsiyu smogut ne tol'ko lyudi, no i mashiny. V etoy knige idei Semantic Web rassmatrivayutsya s tochki zreniya proektirovaniya i razrabotki informatsionnykh sistem. Osnovnoe vnimanie udelyaetsya metodam i tekhnologiyam, pozvolyayushchem publikovat' informatsiyu i v chelovekochitaemom vide, i v formate, prigodnom dlya avtomaticheskoy obrabotki programmnymi agentami.Kniga prednaznachena studentov, aspirantov i spetsialistov v oblasti informatsionnykh tekhnologiy, zanimayushchikhsya voprosami predstavleniya znaniy i cheloveko-mashinnogo vzaimodeystviya, razrabotkoy programmnykh sistem i baz znaniy, a takzhe sistemnykh integratorov.