Computable information is information that can be readily manipulated and transformed by computers. Currently a great deal of information (on the Web and elsewhere) can be read by computers but not manipulated or understood by them. In the near future, the Semantic Web being developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founders of the World Wide Web, and others, will make information computable and connectable by adding semantic information, based on ontologies and classifications, to elements within text (Berners-Lee 2001).