“The Semantic Web has long been a sort of Holy Grail for Internet scientists. The problem with the way the Web works today is that for all its automation, the actual information that’s being sorted in a typical search is structured so that it is most understandable to people, not machines. Semantic systems use a standard format to classify all the Web’s information, whether it be airline flight tables and passenger data, biographies, or drug lab results, so that it can be read by computers. And unlike today’s search engines, Semantic Web technologies are designed not simply to look up information but to understand its meaning”…. <More>

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