• The semantic web is also referred to as Web 3.0. The next generation of web implementation that will fulfill Tim Berners-Lee original vision for a web of meaning. Shifting from the web of text that humans interpret to a web of linked data that machines can interpret.

    The concept is based on creating vocabularies or ontologies for describing data and then allowing the data to be linked from multiple sources and accessed as if it were a single local resource. Early work has been conducted in the health and life sciences fields, allowing published research data to be shared in uniform fashion.

    Data structures are built using a series of triples, subject, predicate and object.

    1. RDF: Resource Description Framework http://www.w3.org/RDF/
    2. OWL: Web Ontology Language http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/
    3. SPARQL: Query Language for RDF http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

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