W3C Semantic Web Activity
- A key activity of the World Wide Web Consortium W3C (inventor T.Berners-Lee)
- W3C
- develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software and tools)
- to lead the web to its full potential
- as a forum for information, commerce, communication and collective understanding
- The semantic web
- is an extension of the current one
- focuses on the meaningful content of web pages
- creates an environment where software agents roaming from page to page carry out sophisticated
tasks for users
- becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people
