The W3C has adobted an outline for what they hope the web will eventually become...Semantic.
The definition of semantic is: Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language.
What the W3C is proposing for a semantc web is this:
An extension of the current Web that provides an easier way to find, share, reuse and combine information more easily. It is based on machine-readable information and builds on XML technology's capability to define customized tagging schemes and RDF's (Resource Description Framework) flexible approach to representing data. The Semantic Web provides common formats for interchange of data (where on the Web there is only had interchange of documents). It also provides a common language for recording how the data relates to real world objects, allowing a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.
This is a great idea, that may one day come to fruition. Probably not in the near future, but it gives us something to aim for.
Read more about the semantic web at the W3C web site.
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