Definition: The Semantic Web is the abstract representation of data on the World Wide Web, based on the RDF standards and other standards to be defined. It is being developed by the W3C, in collaboration with a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
The Semantic Web, which some of you may be familiar with this term, is something that just came across my radar as an interesting melding of web technology, metadata, and way to make information easier for humans to comprehend by providing context to an idea. We’ll be following this one for a while, but here’s a decent introduction to the concept:
The semantic web: How RDF will change learning technology standards
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