There has been a lot of hype about the Semantic Web, and this has not been a good thing. Spurious claims about what the Semantic Web might and might not be able to do have been choking public understanding of it, and adding to the confusion that many peop
On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the curren
Discusses three conceptual components of the semantic web project (1. expressing meaning, 2. knowledge representation, and 3. ontologies), with "educated layperson's" technical details on semantic markup, software agents, and machine-readable content serv