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From the Frontiers of Research to the Heart of the Enterprise
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
July 22-26, 2002 -- San Diego, CA

Apache
BOF
The Semantic Web and DAML+OIL

Track: BOF
Date: Tuesday, July 23
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Harbor Island II
Moderated by: Christopher Maloney

Using XML as a starting point, the Semantic web is currently bringing together experts and schema designers from a wide variety of fields, developing a coherent universal language for describing data.

DAML provides a language for describing relationships not only between objects, but between other classes and relationships. This enables much more sophisticated data mining applications.