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| 59 | | == How We Use the Internet to Find Information == |
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| 61 | | The Internet is the enabling technology for sharing plant information easily. (Going back to the ''flight'' metaphor, ''the Internet'' probably occupies the same place in the interoperability of plant information as does ''air'' in flight.) Without the Internet, on top of all the other steps required to transfer information between our software applications, we would have to add the chore of creating a link between each pair of business partners. |
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| 63 | | But beyond the simple connection between plant project participants, when we try to use the Internet beyond simply calling up web pages, we run into many of the same issues that we run into trying to make plant applications communicate with each other. This brings us to the Semantic Web. |
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