Semantic Web

Overview
According to Tim Berners Lee, "The Semantic Web is a Web of actionable information—information derived from data through a semantic theory for interpreting the symbols." [1]

In other words, the Semantic Web interprets information and data of the consumers so that the content can be filtered to what the user wants and needs. The Semantic Web allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.[2]

How It Will Be Applied
Data Integration: whereby data in various locations and various formats can be integrated in one, seamless application; in resource discovery and classification to provide better, domain specific search engine capabilities;



Content Rating; describing collections of pages that represent a single logical “document”; for describing intellectual property rights of Web pages (see, eg, the {[#NewWindowLink: http://creativecommons.org/ | Creative Commons}}), and in many other scenarios (e.g. Amazon).[3]