Once this metainformation is defined, clients will be able to brovide a richer interface. Knowledge in the web may be divided ino knowledge which is stored in the structure of the web, in its typed links, and knowledge which is stored in nodes written a form of knowledge representation language. The former allows commonality and interworkingbetween different applications as it involved standards for relationship semantics. The latter is more flexible, provides greater functionaloity and less interworking, and is largely a question of using existing flexibility of the content-type negotiation system to introduce existing langauges. The areas in which W3C may be involved would typicallybe in defining a common execution environment for mobile executable objects, and in defining inter-language communication standards in order for elements in different langauages to interact seamlessly.
Requirements Here are some outline strawman points.
A set of link types has been defined since 1989 but there has been a confusion between meta information about information, and information about other things. Next Step A W3C meeting in Sept 11-12 in Boston is to be arranged to gather input for a refinement of the requirements.