When the web starts thinking for itself

Through enabling easy, widespread publishing the web has had enormous social consequences, dramatically altering human behaviour and expectations in information retrieval, knowledge sharing and collaborative working.

However, the web as it currently exists makes searching and data exchange difficult.
In September 1998, Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the web, outlined a vision of how it could evolve to address this flaw - Semantic's of the Web

XML and Semantic Transparency

How does XML help with the encoding of information at the semantic level? Or does it? New users sometimes refer to XML as "semantic markup," and may be heard to praise XML for its ability to express semantic clarity through markup. Read more by clicking on the title of this article..

Putting Semantics in the Semantic Web

Building a meaningful basis for trust

This note discusses work undertaken by W3C's RDF core working group, and others, to define a formal semantics to underpin the Semantic Web, and indicates why this is significant for security related applications.

The Semantic Web - History

Want to know more about what is Semantic Web - or the future of web technologies.
Here are some questions which will get addressed..

• What is the Semantic Web?
  
• Where did it come from?
  
• PICS, or Where has it been?
  
• RDF, or Where is it up to?