The Semantic web is an extension of the World Wide Web. The semantic web is also known as a ‘web of data’ and “enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites”.
The semantic web looks at the idea of applications being needed to help us gain information over things that we are searching for. This type of web is suggested to be ‘smarter’ than the ordinary world wide web as it can help us find what we want quicker. It helps to specify the results we find when searching on the internet to the particular topic we’re looking for. The semantic web enables us to have “data as well as documents on the web so that machines can process, transform, assemble, and even act on the data in useful ways”.
I personally feel it will been as significant in the area of education as it will enable you to research and pin point sources quicker. It will also be seen as highly effective as digital natives understand and use this method of the web to the best of their ability. The idea of the semantic web seems highly professional and even though it will be some time before we see it working, it is obvious it will be highly influential on society.
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(Author Unknown), (2007)What is the Semantic Web?, http://www.altova.com/semantic_web.html, [accessed 25.03.09]
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Have you chatted with your brother-in-law about it? Would that be utilising your CofP? Would it be 'cheating'? (presumably no-one else in the cohort could call upon someone as well placed as him?)
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