The Semantic Web: it's the latest version of the world wide web. It can 'connect the dots' between data points in any application in any language at any website--and help you create knowledge out of those connections. And it's coming to an enterprise near you.(Webnotes)(Editorial)

ABA Banking Journal, February, 2005 by Orr, Bill

In December, internet technology elites from around the world gathered in Boston's Fairmont Copley Hotel to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This is the organization that has guided the growth of the world wide web, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), other open standards of the internet--and its latest protege, the Semantic Web. Tim Berners-Lee is a cofounder of W3C and the principal architect of the world wide web and the Semantic Web. In 1990, Berners-Lee's proposal for a "world wide web" connecting documents from any source on the internet was implemented on a single server at the Swiss research lab where he worked. Today many millions of servers implement his dream.

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