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Nature 410, 1023-1024 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074206

Publishing on the semantic web

Tim Berners-Lee1 & James Hendler2

  1. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide Web, is at the World Wide Web Consortium, MIT, 545 Technology Square, Room NE43-356, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee).
  2. James Hendler is in the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20853, USA.
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The coming Internet revolution will profoundly affect scientific information.

To predict the future of scientific publishing on the World-Wide Web, it is important to understand how web technology is changing. We are in the early days of a new web revolution, one that will have profound implications on web publishing, and on the nature of the web itself.