The Semantic Web meets the Deep Web

Part of the vision of the Semantic Web is to achieve the automation of E-business processes and E-services by equipping agent programs like softbots with rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities to roam the Web, find data and services, and co...

Part of the vision of the Semantic Web is to achieve the automation of E-business processes and E-services by equipping agent programs like softbots with rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities to roam the Web, find data and services, and combine them to achieve business goals. However, a large amount of valuable E-commerce information on the Web is not “visible” to general search engines, Web crawlers and agent programs, because this information is typically stored in backend databases. It is only accessible through Web services or Web form interfaces that pose challenges to the fully automated access by crawlers and agents. This “hidden, invisible and non-indexable” content on the Web is called the Deep Web.

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