Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
Posted by Jacque on July 11th, 2007
In an interview with IDG’s Peter Moon, Tim Berners-Lee discusses his view of where the Web is headed and answers the question, “What is the Semantic Web?” He also has things to say about net neutrality which we posted about recently.
“The Semantic Web is about putting data files on the Web. It’s not just a Web of documents but also of data. The Semantic Web of data would have many applications to connect together. For the first time there is a common data format for all applications, for databases and Web pages.”
Berners-Lee, according to Wikipedia, is the inventor of the World Wide Web, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [via Wired Blog Network]
