By Ajbadd
Notes on Web Evolution

The “Semantic Web” is a broad term that denotes the annotation of data on the Internet and the operations these annotations will allow. The annotations better describe an object and relationships between objects.

1) Idealistic, pie in the sky take

All data on the Internet will be annotated. Computer programs will be able to trawl the net, drawing inferences and producing new knowledge.

Why is that a big deal? Consider the case where you have a web page about Sam; it says Sam has a son Max and Max has a daughter called Zoe. All computers knows to do is display this information, so you can read it. A traditional search engine will not display any information from this page if you queried “Sam’s grand-daughter”. Now consider the case when the same page is semantically enabled.

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