What if the World Wide Web were one giant database, linking both human readable documents and machine readable data in a way useful to both mankind and machine? It would be the future of the Web espoused by Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Since Berners-Lee and a few other leaders at the W3C first mentioned it in May 2001, that vision has increasingly become a leading focus of the W3C's work. They call it the Semantic Web. Speaking before Britain's scientifically-minded Royal Society Monday, Berners-Lee attempted to explain the vision of the Semantic Web, and why he believes it will reinvent the existing Web for both end users and businesses.
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