This ones a hard one to grasp!
Semantic web was thought up by Tim Berners-Lee, who was also the inventor of the WWW, URLs, HTTP, and HTML (http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/)
Semantic web explains things in the way that computer applications can understand, more so than in ways people can understand. It allows the computer to find what the consumer wants instead of using a traditional ‘search engine’.
So basically it uses language that a computer understands, for example Y, X, Z which is used by programmes to search, and pick out information that they think is most relevant to the person using the internet. It means they would be able to provide the user with all the information they need, instead of the user having to trawl through loads of useless URL's.
As I said, it was hard to grasp what the semantic web was, so if I have it wrong, do tell me.
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RINCY
It's a bit of a sci-fi notion to be sure. Currently when searching, computers recognise strings of 1s and 0s as 'like' strings that have been identified as of interest. Hyperlinks are exact matches of strings.
The semantic notion is that computers will 'learn' to recognise suitable material by 'understanding' what the strings mean (to you) -and hence being able to match with other material in a very different way.
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