Chapter 8. Find: Describe and discover web Things

This chapter covers

Learning the basics of discoverability (methods and protocols)
Understanding how to do web-level discovery (linking/crawling)
Proposing a model to describe web Things and their capabilities
Extending the basic model with additional Semantic Web formats

8.1. The findability problem

8.2. Discovering Things

8.3. Describing web Things

8.4. The Semantic Web of Things

8.5. Summary

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