Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of data". It builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF). According to the W3C, "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allo... More

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  • web of data,
  • SemWeb,
  • linked data web,
  • Web 3.0

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  • 2008
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