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New Trends in the Web Evolution
(The Emergence of the Web)
Luigi Gabriel CERBAN, Alexandru BOTU, Adrian BADOIU
SC IPA SA- Bucharest, Romania, luigi@ipa.ro
Abstract: Predicting the future is always a dicey business, and never more so than when the subject is
the Web. The Web has been evolving so quickly that some say one Web year is the equivalent of three real
years. Progress in communication technology has been characterized by a movement from lower to
higher levels of abstraction. The Semantic Web is not just for the World Wide Web. It represents a set of
technologies that will work equally well on internal corporate intranets. This is analogous to Web
services representing services not only across the Internet but also within a corporation's intranet. So, the
Semantic Web will resolve several key problems facing current information technology architectures.
Key words: The Semantic Web, Web of trust, Mobile Web
I. INTRODUCTION
II.
WHAT IS THE SEMANTIC WEB?
"The first step is putting data on the Web in a
form that machines can naturally understand, or
converting it to that form. This creates what I
call a Semantic Web-a web of data that can be
processed directly or indirectly by machines."[7]
The future of the Web lies first with the
convergence of the semantic Web, Web of trust
and Web 2.0, followed by twinning with GRIDs.
This e-infrastructure will allow more or less
unlimited access to information, business
processing, entertainment, education, research
and so forth. [4]
The Semantic Web provides a common
framework that allows data to be shared and
reused across application, enterprise, and
community boundaries. Can think of the
Semantic Web as an efficient way to
represent data on the World Wide Web, or as
a database that is globally linked, in a manner
understandable by machines, to the content of
documents on the Web. Semantic
technologies represent meaning using
ontologies and provide reasoning through the
relationships, rules, logic, and conditions
represented in those ontologies.
It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with
participation from a large number of researchers
and industrial partners. It is based on the
Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Semantic Web aims to assist the web users to
contribute information in ways that
computers can understand, process and
exchange. This will enable the web
applications to perform tedious task of
collating information from varied sources.
And also assist users to find relevant
information, such as, a movie review,
scholarship posting for specific students, a
book order, etc., quickly. The Semantic Web
applications will use languages like Resource
Description Framework (RDF), Extensible
Markup Language (XML), XML Schema and
RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0:
RDF Schema (RDFS).
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora
Lassila unveiled a nascent vision of the
Semantic Web: a highly interconnected
network of data that could be easily accessed
and understood by any desktop or handheld
machine. [3] They painted a future of
intelligent software agents that would head