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Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a vision, initiative, and ongoing effort, led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to make information on the web more accessible and easily processed by machines. According to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of both the Semantic Web and the existing World Wide Web (WWW), the former is not a separate entity but rather an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, which in turn enables computers and people to work together more effectively. In other words, the Semantic Web is not meant to be a replacement or substitute for the current WWW but rather is an evolution of the latter, where the meaning of data is explicitly defined in a way that is understandable by ...
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