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Understanding Systems Group Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland at College Park This is the FAQ for all
things SHOE. If you have a question that is not covered here or
would like to add a question to the list, please contact Jeff
Heflin (email@example.com). 1.1 What is SHOE? What SHOE is...
SHOE is an HTML-based knowledge representation language. SHOE is
a superset of HTML which adds the tags necessary to embed
arbitrary semantic data into web pages. SHOE tags are divided
into two categories. First, there are tags for constructing
ontologies. SHOE ontologies are sets of rules which define what
kinds of assertions SHOE documents can make and what these
assertions mean. For example, a SHOE ontology might say that a
SHOE document can declare that some data entity is a "dog", and
that if it does so, that this "dog" is permitted to have a
"name". Secondly, there are tags for annotating web documents to
subscribe to one or more ontologies, decl