"The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax."

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Source: Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web, revolutionizing how we access and share information globally.

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