The Semantic Web, sometimes called Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web built on standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. Its goal is to make the data published across the internet machine readable, rather than legible only to a human reader browsing conventional web pages.
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Origin YearThe idea of adding semantics to the Web predates the term itself, per the same source; Berners-Lee's 1998 design document first used the field's current name. Core ConcernExtending the Web with standards that make its data machine-readable, so software can act on the meaning of information as well as its text. 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: The Semantic Web
Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, paragraph on the idea predating the term
Berners-Lee discussed the need for semantics in the Web at the first International World Wide Web Conference in 1994.
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The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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