NetCrucible - Semantic's of the Web: December 2004

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Semantic Web Touts Improved Data Sharing

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has targeted the life sciences as an ideal application area for its Semantic Web technology.

The idea behind the Semantic Web is to add defining tags to information within Web pages and to provide links to this information so that an application can discover data and make associations between different data elements. Essentially, the Semantic Web is a way of creating a globally distributed database where data can more easily be found, accessed, and incorporated into applications.

World wide web now old news: welcome the SEMANTIC web!!

In the beginning, computer systems were only occasionally networked, and when they were, a number of completely different protocols were used to connect one system with another. Then, Tim Berners-Lee said, "Let there be a World Wide Web!" and it was created, and he saw that it was good. After creating one of the biggest revolutionary phenomena in the last two decades, he should have taken a rest at that point.

Instead, he created the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is now the main standard body for the Web. This group holds the reins to HTML, HTTP, and URI as well as being the originator of other pearls of the Internet such as XML, XSLT, and SOAP. Again, you would think this would be enough. However, Berners-Lee's next "big thing" is still on the horizon, and he has been working on it since 1998: the Semantic.