The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web that will allow you to find, share, and combine information more easily. It relies on machine-readable information and is looked at 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,URLs, HTTP, and HTML.
It can be seen as a huge engineering solution and helps publishing data become easier in a repurposable form, so more people will want to publish data, and there will be a knock-on or domino effect. Semantic web applications can be used for a variety of different tasks, increasing the modularity of applications on the web.
http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/
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Iv got to admit when researching this I didnt quite understand it fully but after your explanation I now do!Thank You Helen!!!
Your welcome sarah! i also found it hard to grasp it took me a while.
Helen,
This is a useful start on understanding the semantic web, perhaps you could also have considered how this could actually be applied to real life?
All the best
Emma
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