The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database.The Semantic Web was thought up by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW, URIs, HTTP, and HTML. There is a dedicated team of people at the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) working to improve, extend and standardize the system, and many languages, publications, tools and so on have already been developed.
Uche Ogbuji wrote a good article on XML.com here is a summary: "I’m still getting my Weblogger profile here updated, but this year I transitioned from one company I co-founded to another. Zepheira provides data architecture solutions, with a focus on semantic technology. I was early on the Semantic Web bandwagon, and I almost fell off at one point because I felt the useful, modest ideas at the core had been overrun by an academic brand of technological megalomania. This year I felt the timing was right to not only renew my interest in the technology,
Identifiers: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
If I want to discuss something, I must first identify it. How else will you know what I'm referring to? I might do this in an indirect manner: "The North Star." "The strange man at the grocery store." "Those really sour candies that Bob always eats." I might also choose to be more direct: "Polaris." "Jonathan Roberts." "Mega Warheads."
To identify items on the Web, we also use identifiers. Because we use a uniform system of identifiers, and because each item identified is considered a "resource," we
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