Spectrum | 19.11.2008 | 00:30
Scientists and the "Semantic Web"
The World Wide Web is an amazing source of information. You can find virtually everything from the weather forecast for Timbuktu, a recipe for Hungarian sausages, or the wheat prices in Western Australia.
But the Web currently requires people to read this information. Scientists have been looking at ways to publish data on the Web so that computers can read it as well. The idea is called the “Semantic Web” and means machines could carry out some of the more tedious work in finding, sharing and combining information on the Web. Kate Hairsine reports from Karlsruhe, the home of the Semantic Web Science Association.
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