"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." - Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila in http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html See also http://www.SemanticWeb.org/ and http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
(32NP) An evolution of the Web to a web in which meaning can be exchanged and mediated to provide machine-to-machine and more effective human-to-machine interaction. Descrived as "a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort lead by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resources Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming. (329J) See W3C Semantic Web Website (329K)
The predicted evolution of the current HTML-based World Wide Web, in which information will be stored in machine-readable formats for easy retrieval by software applications, computer agents, and virtual assistants.
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Promoted as the "Next Generation Internet" where more benefits capable through the Internet can be achieved by allowing program or databases to implement instructions and routines without having to be written in the same programming language. Term coined by Tim Berners-Lee for the next evolutionary step for the WEB where machines interoperate regardless of applications and platforms used. Attainment of the Semantic Web viewed as the true benefit driving environment for the Internet.
Seen as the next step to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web aims to define and link data to allow a more successful detection, automation and integration to enable the user to find the information s/he really wants or needs.
The Semantic Web is the name given to the "vision" of the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, whereby every site on the Web will understand the data on every other site, not due to rigidly enforced standard protocols or grab-all formats; but thanks to total data knowledge produced by data mappings. XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) are tools to bring this about.
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming. A concept proposed by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
project of the W3C in which automated methods based on quality metadata are envisaged to replace much human searching of the web. Relies on ontologies, XML and RDF.
Sometimes called Web2.0. This refers to the goal to make the information in world-wide-web understandable to computers, using technology such as XML and SOAP. Basically, web pages include information not only explaining how pages look, but what they actually mean. Search engines already make use of this in the form of information feeds, such as RSS and XML site maps
A Web which has meaning, or more particularly "meaning" to computer applications such as intelligent agents, search engines, Web services, knowledge management systems, e-business and e-commerce systems.
Today, the W3C is looking towards the next evolution in Web technologies: the Semantic Web. In the Semantic Web data itself becomes part of the Web and is able to be processed independently of application, platform, or domain. Where the current Web is a collection of documents, the Semantic Web is more like a huge database, in which data on Web pages as well as in databases and legacy systems can be searched, processed, and acted on by machines in meaningful ways. The Semantic Web relies on structured sets of metadata and inference rules that allow it to “understand†the relationship between different data resources. The technologies that form the basis of the Semantic Web by adding these metadata and inference rules are RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDFS (RDF Schema) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). Check out "What is the Semantic Web?" or the W3C Semantic Web pages for more information.
A term coined by Tim Berners-Lee which views the future Web as a web of data, like a global database. The infrastructure of the Semantic Web would allow machines as well as humans to make deductions and organize information. The architectural components include semantics (meaning of the elements), structure (organization of the elements), and syntax (communication). For more information see http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
An extension of the web using Resource Description Format (RDF) in which content is made meaningful allowing sharing and reuse across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
The unification of all scientific content by computer languages and technologies that permit the interrelationships between scientific concepts to be communicated between machines. The semantic web relies on ontology markup languages that enable knowledge
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, proposes that the web can be made more useful if computers can learn to “speak each othersâ€(tm) language†enabling faster flow of information.
The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, and even if it was derived from a database with well defined meanings (in at least some terms) for its columns, that the structure of the data is not evident to a robot browsing the web. Leaving aside the artificial intelligence problem of training machines to behave like people, the Semantic Web approach instead develops languages for expressing information in a machine processable form. [Berners-Lee
Wikipedia Definition: Semantic Web
A conceptual web built on top of the World Wide Web in which all identified resources will be machine-processable. See RDF, W3C, Metadata, OIL, Ontology, DAML, http://www.semanticweb.org/, and [Tim Berners-Lee's Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web.
An extension of the current World Wide Web that provides a common framework allowing data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise and community boundaries. It is based on Resource Description Framework, which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming.
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" ( 1999-07-23) The Web of data with meaning in the sense that a computer program can learn enough about what the data means to process it. My rough notes on related "design issues"
Extends the Web through semantic markup languages, such as Resource Description Framework, Web Ontology Language and Topic Maps that describe entities and their relationships in the underlying document. www.w3.org/2001/sw
Will enable computers to talk with one another. How we will address "the difference between information produced primarily for human consumption and that produced mainly for machines. At one end of the scale we have everything from the five-second TV commercial to poetry. At the other end we have databases, programs and sensor output. To date, the Web has developed most rapidly as a medium of documents for people rather than for data and information that can be processed automatically. The Semantic Web aims to make up for this." Tim Berners-Lee in Scientific American.
An extension to the World Wide Web which contains "Machine Understandable" data. At its most basic level, this in information which allows computers, not just human beings, to access and navigate the internet.
Web sémantique The Semantic Web is World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's idea that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a user's needs. Berners-Lee observes that although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. He foresees a number of ways in which developers and authors can use self-descriptions and other techniques so that context-understanding programs can selectively find what users want. Source: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) – Glossary
The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web in which information is machine processable (rather than being only human oriented), thus permitting browsers or other software agents to find, share and combine information more easily.
