Sir Tim Berners-Lee terms the semantic web an extension of current technology
According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited as being the inventor of the phenomenon of world wide web, the semantic web is not a separate web. “It’s just an extension of the current one,” stated Berners-Lee. “Information is provided well-defined meaning - better enabling computers & people to work in cooperation,” he stated, and added it could well be taken one step further by pulling digital photo-image albums into the mix, tallying pictures of outings with spending peaks on the bank statement. This would be akin to a behind-the-scenes, seamless process. Web users would only get to see the end result, rather than how it was arrived at.
He also explained how the semantic web could help people to track their finances. Explaining the mechanism, he alluded to an online bank statement & a personal calendar, in which simply by dragging & dropping the information - from the calendar on to the statement – one could identify the periods of high expenditure.
There’s another benefit of ‘semantic’ web. Most existing search engines are largely not able to ‘read’ some of the information that’s found on the Internet, which might be very relevant to a particular search query like photos or videos, since they haven’t been well tagged with consistent ‘metadata’ (the labels, which inform computers what a particular piece of data means).
To overcome this problem, the idea of the intelligent and sensible ‘semantic’ web is gaining a lot of pushing and backing from forward-looking technology start-ups apart from established companies.
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