Philosophy behind Semantic Web

“‘A web of data’ is a well conducted explanation of the Semantic Web. From the beginning, Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C expected the Web to become a place that allows humans and machines “to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.” In the Semantic Web, data is annotated with unambiguous definitions and connected by meaningful links. The entire Web thus becomes a network of machine-processable data (including links, which are also data in another form). The Semantic Web is a web of data.

But this explanation of the Semantic Web causes problems when people start to build the Semantic Web based on this view. Typically, two questions are raised:

1. Who will hold the authority on the ultimate explanation of Web data?
2. Why should ordinary Web users contribute to a web of data? “

Each of those questions is linked to more information, giving this entire article a rare depth. Read the full article Abandon Babel, Welcome Society: The Philosophy Behind Semantic Web Approaches and learn more.