Ecology, as a field where extracting useful data from others’ research is a challenge, is a prime example of were Semantic Web-based data sharing is potentially valuable. Currently, this work is largely independent of the web, other than as a distribution mechanism. The food web instance data used in the WoW project is collected into a single centralized knowledge base rather than being drawn from a distributed set of data. This is mainly a result of the fact that the semantic web and associated tools are in their infancy and the ecological community is not currently producing data with semantic markup and publishing it on the semantic web.
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Date: 2007-11-27 12:07 am (UTC)=== an information packaging issue