SUMMARY- THE SEMANTIC WEB

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the
semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the
web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web
content.. The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be
easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it 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, URIs, HTTP,
and HTML.

NEED FOR SEMANTIC WEB:

Today we are capable of sharing our data with the help of internet. However there
is no standard through which we can have a global database. Semantic web aspires to
have a single global integrated view of data. This will be enabled with the help of agents.
‘Agents’ is a new paradigm for software development. As objects in OOAD approach
represent passive entities, such as books, cars etc; ‘Agents’ represent active entities such
as Business, Library, showroom etc.
Let’s assume we have a link on www which has certain information in English.
The same may be duplicated in ‘German’ or we may have some additional information in
‘German’. The semantic web would enable to integrate the information and all users will
have the same view of data.

THE ENABLERS:
The Semantic web is possible due to Artificial Intelligence Technology. The so
called agents are able to ‘learn’ which is not possible through current programming alone.
These agents act like Humans and are able to negotiate terms and conditions.
We can conclude that semantic web would bring the next generation web
technology which will completely transform the way we think and seek information. It
has applications ranging from biotechnology to education. However, we need to wait for
another 5-7 years to see this infant coming into adolescent.
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