Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sense, the Web is already being read by a machine — namely your own computer — when you surf the Web.
The article goes on to provide an example of what might happen if you were travelling for business or pleasure. This use of the semantic web comes from Dean Allemang, chief scientist at Semantic Web consulting firm TopQuadrant.
Source: GCN Tech Blog
See Also: Dean Allemang’s Weblog, S is For Semantics
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