Information Research Weblog

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is interviewed in this clip and defines the Semantic Web as 'the data web', suggesting that the emerging Semantic Web standards are all about enabling sites to be created that pull data in from various data bases to create new associations of data. It may be that 'data web' is a better term than 'semantic web', since the Web is already 'semantic' (see previous message), otherwise we wouldn't understand a word of what is there :-)