Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 27, 2004 @05:50AM from the same-old-refrain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As we all know, Tim Berners-Lee is the hero of the Web's creation story--he conjured up this system and chose not to capitalize on it commercially. It turns out that Sir Tim (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July) had a much grander plan in mind all along--a little something he calls the Semantic Web that would enable computers to extract meaning from far-flung information as easily as today's Internet links individual documents. In an interview with Technology Review, the Web-maestro explains his vision of 'a single Web of meaning, about everything and for everyone.'"

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Re:You don't want a "single" web... by escher · 2004-09-27 06:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The semantic web is just data. Your warnings about a monoculture apply to the semantic web about as much as they apply to text files.

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