Semantic Web Technologies - The Next Frontier
What are semantic web technologies? Before we had really started getting used to the idea of Web 2.0, researchers were talking about Web 3.0 - though actually it is usually now referred to as the "Semantic Web". And this concept of the web really does start to sound more like the "birth of the Matrix" - could this be a prequel to that wonderful trilogy?
Semantic web technologies
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Humans can use the web to find specific information that they want because they understand what is written on each web page. Thus, whilst a search engine can find all the web pages with "matrix" written on them, only humans can easily distinguish those pages that are about the film "The Matrix" rather than about mathematics. Semantic web technology is based on a vision in which web pages are "understood" by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.
Clearly this exciting development will have a profound effect on our ability to use the Internet to find information and new knowledge.
Here is Tim Berners Lee (father of the World Wide Web) talking about the semantic web and semantic web technologies:
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