Semantic Web | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web


00:02:13 1 Example
00:04:56 2 Background
00:06:42 2.1 Limitations of HTML
00:09:52 2.2 Semantic Web solutions
00:12:13 2.3 Web 3.0
00:13:36 3 Challenges
00:16:50 4 Standards
00:17:08 4.1 Components
00:20:49 4.2 Current state of standardization
00:21:31 5 Applications
00:24:36 6 Skeptical reactions
00:24:46 6.1 Practical feasibility
00:29:02 6.2 Censorship and privacy
00:30:08 6.3 Doubling output formats
00:31:27 7 Research activities on corporate applications
00:32:28 7.1 Future of applications



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SUMMARY
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The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standards promote common data formats and exchange protocols on the Web, most fundamentally the Resource Description Framework (RDF). According to the W3C, "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries". The Semantic Web is therefore regarded as an integrator across different content, information applications and systems.
The term was coined by Tim Berners-Lee for a web of data (or data web) that can be processed by machines—that is, one in which much of the meaning is machine-readable. While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in library and information science, industry, biology and human sciences research have already proven the validity of the original concept.Berners-Lee originally expressed his vision of the Semantic Web as follows:

I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize.
The 2001 Scientific American article by Berners-Lee, Hendler, and Lassila described an expected evolution of the existing Web to a Semantic Web. In 2006, Berners-Lee and colleagues stated that: "This simple idea…remains largely unrealized".
In 2013, more than four million Web domains contained Semantic Web markup.