The Semantic Web
A promising area of research that truly might cause another Internet revolution is an ambitious concept known as the semantic web. The semantic web, which has the full support and advocacy of World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, is designed as a universal technique for linking web data with real semantic meaning as a human understands it. In other words, the goal is to somehow encode the meaning of web information in a way that is easily accessed and processed by a computer.
To understand the purpose of the semantic web, one must start with some sense of how little knowledge is truly present on a web page. For instance, consider the following lines of text, which might be present at a typical website:
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