The Internet of the future: Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a new idea that came from the creator of the WWW, URIs, HTTP and HTML. Imagine yourself the information from all over the world being linked as in a global database, in such a way that the information would be easily processable by the machines, on the global scale. This could be the next step in improving the efficiency of representing the data from the Internet.

W3C is already working on creating the new Internet standard, as many tools, languages and publications that are focused on semantic web have already been created. But anyway, as these technologies are yet in their infancy, it is very hard to imagine how the Internet will look after the implementation of the Semantic Web standards.

The greatest part of the data is published in such a way, that it is very difficult to use it on a large scale due to the fact that there is no global system for publishing the data in such a way, that it can be easily used and processed by everyone. The Internet in now full of data, and our main problem now is how to properly manage it. If we look at sites that present sports events, weather information, plane times, local news, we understand that because the news are represented in HTML, its usage is limited. So the problem that is thought to be solved by the introduction of the semantic internet would be the openness of the information, so that it could be used in many various ways.

But the semantic web comes not only as an engineering solution. Because, in time, it will be easier to publish data in a repurposable form, more and more people would want to publish data. In time there might also appear applications that would evolve the Internet, increasing the modularity of the Web applications.