Semantic Web is said to have been inspired by the same creator of the World Wide Web, John Berners-Lee. He had the inspiration to turn the web into a single repository for information instead of an enormous collection of web sites and pages.
The Semantic Web is primarily focused upon machines while Web 2.0 is primarily focused upon people and social networking and collaboration. The Semantic Web is a project aimed to compile and present data in a manner that is understood by computers. The project aims to do this in such a way that the computers can then compile and aggregate information without the need for a human operator.
The Semantic Web is not a seperate entity from the World Wide Web, it is simply a component of it. It adds new data, extending previous documents into further data. To achieve the means of the semantic web, developers have created RDF (Resource Description Framework) which is a framework that is used to turn web data into structured data that can be used by software.
Semantic Web is most commonly used in research and life sciences where it is utilized to easily compile lists of medicines and illnesses that would otherwise be quite difficult to aggregate.
(The most recent version of Semantic Web is often refered to as Web 3.0)
November 23, 2009 at 6:26 pm |
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