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posted by Editor on Tuesday February 26, @11:42AM
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This article in Business Week provides a high-level overview of the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the next-generation set of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards based on XML that will have the ability to understand not only the meaning of words and concepts, but also the logical relationships among them (the concept is described in more detail in this Scientific American article). While Berners-Lee largely invented the design of the current Web by himself, the new project is a collaborative effort of hundreds of developers who hope that the Semantic Web will be as big a revolution as the original Web itself. The ultimate goal of the project is to turn the Web into a kind of gigantic brain with a "racial memory" of all the knowledge that humankind has ever accumulated in science, business, and the arts. Online commerce chores and Web services would be handled by software modules that snap together like toy Lego blocks, and computers will dispatch intelligent agents called software messengers to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically sift out just what's relevant. First, though, some tough business problems have to be worked out, including the question of whether patented software should be allowed in W3C-approved standards.
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