r1 - 09 Nov 2006 - 15:23:18 - BenBurnettYou are here: burnett.ws >  Main Web  > SemanticWeb
Table Of Contents %STARTALIASAREA%

1. Semantic Web

The Semantic Web = a Web with a meaning.

"If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database" Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999

http://www.w3schools.com/semweb/default.asp


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). ...http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/


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. ...http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html


The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database.

The Semantic Web was thought up by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, URIs, HTTP, and HTML. There is a dedicated team of people at the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) working to improve, extend and standardize the system, and many languages, publications, tools and so on have already been developed. However, Semantic Web technologies are still very much in their infancies, and although the future of the project in general appears to be bright, there seems to be little consensus about the likely direction and characteristics of the early Semantic Web. http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/

1.1. Other Links


BenBurnett - 31 Jul 2006 %STOPALIASAREA%
Edit | WYSIWYG | Attach | Printable | Raw View | Backlinks: Web, All Webs | History: r1 | More topic actions



dashboard

stats count

View My Stats (StatCounter )


Ads:


 
Burnett.ws

Ben Burnett's Website



This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platformCopyright © 2006-2008 by Ben Burnett and the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the Ben Burnett and the contributing authors.
Ideas, requests, problems regarding burnett.ws? Send feedback