The Semantic Web (SemWeb) is the architecture, technologies, and implementation of the vision of the Web of data which enables data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries as a hyperlinked collection of data and metadata represented as Web resources combined with RDF triple statements that describe the details, meaning, and relationships among resources in a form that can be readily processed by computer software such as Semantic Web applications and software agents in a manner meaningful to the applications as data rather than the presentation form of the traditional Web.
"The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries." -- W3C Semantic Web FAQ.
"The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data." -- announcement for 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)
See also: Web of data
See also: Web of Linked Data
See also: Linking Open Data Cloud
See also: Semantic Web technologies
See also: semantic web service
See the W3C Semantic Web web page.
See the Wikipedia article on "Semantic Web".
Read T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, J., and O. Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American, May, 2001.
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