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Ruben Verborgh

Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia

Ruben Verborgh

Ever since its creation at the end of the 20th century, the Web has profoundly shaped the world’s information flow. Nowadays, the Web’s consumers no longer consist of solely people, but increasingly of machine clients that have been instructed to perform tasks for people. Lacking the ability to interpret natural language, machine clients need a more explicit means to decide what steps they should take. This thesis investigates the obstacles for machines on the current Web, and provides solutions that aim to improve the autonomy of machine clients. In addition, we will enhance the Web’s linking mechanism for people, to enable serendipitous reuse of data between Web applications that were not connected previously.

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Published in 2014.

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@phdthesis{verborgh_phd_2014,
  title = {Serendipitous {Web} Applications through~Semantic Hypermedia},
  author = {Verborgh, Ruben},
  year = 2014,
  month = feb,
  school = {Ghent University},
  address = {Ghent, Belgium},
  url = {https://ruben.verborgh.org/phd/},
}

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Ruben Verborgh. 2014. Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia. PhD thesis. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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R. Verborgh, “Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia,” PhD thesis, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2014.
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Verborgh, Ruben. Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia. Ghent University, Feb. 2014.

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