Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2004
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee for the
next-generation World Wide Web which promotes sharing of machine
readable data in the same way that the original web promotes sharing
of human readable documents. If you want your calendar to be able to
query my calendar, your car to be able to locate my office building,
your inventory system to be able to find out about my products then
you might want to be involved in the Semantic Web.
Underlying the Semantic Web are standards which allow publication
of data of various forms and, importantly, ways of describing the
`meaning' of this data. The buzzwords are: XML, RDF, DAML+OIL,
Ontologies, etc. Semantic Web applications built upon these
technologies are currently few and far between but the potential to
exploit data interoperability both within an organisation and on the
larger Web is clear.
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