NetCrucible - Semantic's of the Web: When the web starts thinking for itself

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

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