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Concept

The Semantic Web is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee to describe a new era of machine communication in which data is more understandable by machines.
“...an extension of the current Web in which information is given welldefined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in co-operation.” - Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila.
Also referred to as Web 3.0 or the ‘Contextual Web’, the Semantic Web is a combination of different technologies - Web 2.0, semantic technologies and SOA. Semantic Web will add meaning to data, driving a computer’s understanding of that data, so it can do intelligent search, reasoning, and combining.
It will take some time until this is fully realized, although niche applications are becoming available.

Trajectory

Search engines will be able to better understand the context of information and the context in which the user requires the information (Semantic Search Engine).
Pieces of information can be glued together and deductions made and exchanged with other programs, giving a bigger scope for small, diverse pieces of information.
Systems, data, and people will work together and process information from diverse sources.
Tailoring of information particular to audiences, contexts, and devices will enable agents to carry out sophisticated tasks.
Machines will process information that they can now only display, providing benefits that are difficult to measure at present.
Applications include anything that requires information to be gathered from many sources, deductions to be made and processed, producing a result that may need to be shared across systems.

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