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Thursday, August 10, 2006

TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia: "Semantic Web


The 'Defined' Web. It refers to the use of XML-tagged data that conforms to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This is a collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data structures on the Web.

Fewer Results - More Meaning
The goal of the Semantic Web is to identify more Web-based data and their interrelationships so that searches can be more effective. As the information on the Web grows, search engines routinely return tens of thousands of results when, very often, only one answer is desired. In order to determine what is true and meaningful, the Web has turned many people into research analysts whether they were ready for the task or not. For more information, visit www.w3.org/2001/sw. See RDF, XDI and semantics."

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