By John Kennedy
Siliconrepublic.com, Ireland’s Technology News Service

A new way to enhance web content for the semantic web — called Common Tag — has been developed at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in NUI Galway in collaboration with major internet firms.

The collaboration involved major internet portal Yahoo, as well as AdaptiveBlue, Faviki, Freebase, Zemanta and Zigtag.

Over 100 researchers at DERI focus on the semantic web, which is the next incarnation of the internet and is expected to be more intuitive because data will be defined and linked.

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