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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.