Semantic Web
Internet is all about different applications scattered around and each one using its own data repository behind the scenes to fuel up the running application. But if you consider the data held by all the applications what is the chance that each application is holding a data that also exists in one or more of the other applications? I get an immediate reply, a very high chance. If as a user you are using multiple applications on the web, again the chances of data relevancy between these applications could be highly possible. For example if I am using a calendaring application that shows me appointments why can’t I also see what my bank statement was on that day or the previous days? If there is way to interlink the numerous data that is scattered around the web and bring them up wherever you want as the context maybe then it brings a whole new perspective of how we look at web. It is no more just a network of interconnected machines but also a network of interconnected data. The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. Also refer to this article “The Semantic Web: An Introduction” and the wikipedia entry.
