When information becomes knowledge
IDEA No 100
THE SEMANTIC WEB
The dream of intelligent machines has been around almost as long as machines themselves. This dream is now becoming a reality. It is called the Semantic Web.
The term was coined by the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee: ‘I have a dream for the Web … in which computers … become capable of analysing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A “Semantic Web”, which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines.’
On the Semantic Web, all information exists in a format that software applications can investigate ...
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