Definition: Semantic Web

By Jack Krupansky

"The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries." -- W3C Semantic Web project.

"The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data." -- announcement for 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)

Synonym for knowledge web.

See also: semantic web service.

See the W3C Semantic Web web page.

See the Wikipedia article on "Semantic Web".

Read T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, J., and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, May, 2001.

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