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title: The Semantic Web
date: "2001-07-21T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 1741
description: I discovered the value of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) through Tim Berners-Lee’s article on the Semantic Web, which illustrates how making web content machine-readable enables software to perform sophisticated, automated tasks for us.
keywords: [semantic web, rdf, tim berners-lee, resource description framework, metadata, machine-readable data]
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Tim Berners-Lee's article on [The Semantic Web](http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html) is the first one that helped me understand what's so great about the RDF (Resource Description Framework).