The infrastructure of the Semantic Web will allow machines as well as humans to make deductions and organise information. The approach is to develop languages that express information in machine processable forms. The architectural components include semantics (meaning of elements), structure (organisation of elements), and syntax (communication). Abstract representation of data is being based on existing standards (eg RDF -Resource Description Framework) and standards yet to be defined, and is in development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in collaboration with researchers and industrial partners. 