Looking for Meaning in the Semantic Web

February 18th, 2006  |  Published in Business, News

Intelligent Enterprise

What is the Semantic Web and how can it help you? The concept may help solve tough corporate information-management problems.

The technology behind semantics includes linguistic programming, artificial intelligence, content management and a few new areas as well. The motivation behind it can be attributed to Tim Berners-Lee and a group of Web devotees who coined the phrase “Semantic Web” more than 10 years ago. The idea was to turn the Web into a single repository of information —rather than a collection of Web sites and pages —that could be queried for its content. They created a new type of metamodel called an ontology to capture the rich meanings and relationships of all the Web’s resources.

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