Computerworld Australia

Web creator Tim Berners-Lee says that the next phase of the Web, dubbed the Semantic Web, could start making its presence felt at companies in the next couple of years.

He provided 400-plus attendees at the MIT Information Technology Conference an update on the project, which has been in the works for about five years.

The basic idea behind the Semantic Web is to better enable sharing of data, including what he calls “pre-Web” data such as that socked away in spreadsheets and databases. “It’s motivated by the data out there that’s not on the Web,” said Berners-Lee, an MIT researcher and director of the World Wide Web Consortium.

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