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The Semantic Web is a visionary project that aims to enhance the usability and usefulness of the Web by enabling computers to find, read, understand and use the content of Web documents to accomplish tasks via automated agents and Web-based services.

Tim Berners-Lee – the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in 1989, wrote the first Web browser and server in 1990 and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium – has a much grander vision for the Web of the future, which he calls the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web adds a metadata infrastructure of tags to define elements of information within Web pages, linking them so computers can extract meaning from widely separated data as easily as the Internet currently links individual documents. The Semantic Web will make it possible for machines, as well as people, to find, read, understand and use data over the Web to accomplish useful tasks. The Semantic Web will extend, not replace, the Web as we know it today.

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