Recently the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, gave a keynote address at the Linked Data Planet conference in New York.
Since bringing us Web 1.0 he's been busy working on his next vision - Web 3.0, commonly referred to as the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web extends the World Wide Web such that the semantics of information and services on the Web is defined. In the Semantic Web a computer understands the meaning and context of words. For example, a Google search based on this principle would understand the question, understand and analyze all knowledge available, and link the two.
From a technical and standards perspective, central to making the Semantic Web possible is keeping information free and available to use in the Linked Data format. Said Berners-Lee, "We all want to do stuff with data. Let's get it on the Web and do stuff with it, and have one standard for doing that. Linked data is a very simple set of rules of putting [this data] on the Web."
There is a dedicated team at the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) working to standardize this framework that if brought to its full potential promises changes in how we use information that are just as revolutionary as we're experiencing with Web 2.0.
[Via Internet News]
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