The Semantic Web

So if I am reading this article on The Semantic Web right then this is something that the creator of the web, Tim Berners-Lee is going to create? The Semantic web is going to improve the web that we use today. If I reading this correctly then it seems that the web will be faster and more knowledgeable. It's going to be more computer friendly, where the computer can easily find the information the user is looking for. It seems that the web is already impressive and that we have far outcome the days of early HTML. We have moved from just a single document on the web to something bigger and better, where there are thousands, if not millions of sites on the web now. And now a days as we I write this response, current HTML is becoming outdated and the new thing to have is XHTML. Lee states that the semantic web is to provide a language that expresses both data and rules for reasoning about the data and that allows rules from any existing knowledge-representation system to be exported onto the Web. It seems that Lee wants to add logic to the web. Make it smarter within itself as well as for the user. It seems as if with the creation of the semantic web that machines will become intelligent, allowing them to comprehend documents instead of just loading them.

This article was very interesting but I have to admit it was kind of confusing. I am just a beginner in web design so some of the terms Lee used went over my head. Otherwise it was very informal article and I learned a lot. Of course I am always impressed by Time Berners-Lee.