The language does not yet include any specification of explicit inference rules, which we hope will follow. It may seem that the last thing the world needs is another Web standard, but there is always room for an intelligent addition. A new language known as DAML addresses an important, unmet need making Web sites understandable to programs and nontraditional browsing devices. A semantic Web also lets agents utilize all the data on all Web pages, allowing it to gain knowledge from one site and apply it to logical mappings on other sites. Customized for auctions, web pages, IRC, ftp sites, etc.
SHOE allows web page authors to annotate their web documents with machine-readable knowledge.
SHOE makes real intelligent agent software on the web possible. This project at USC's ISI is developing the technology and tools for rapidly constructing intelligent agents to extract, query, and integrate data from web sources. We are developing the tools to construct wrappers that make web sources look like databases and we are developing the mediator technology required to dynamically and efficiently answer queries using these sources. The resulting system, which we call Ariadne, will make it fast and cheap to build new agent applications from existing web sources. The mediator and wrapper approach also makes it easy to maintain these applications and incorporate new sources as they become available.