Semantic Web

Semantic Web refers to the W3C's vision of a web of linked data - data of any type.

Semantic Technology uses formal semantics to give meanings to raw and disparate data and The Semantic Web Technology – or technology for the Web of Data or the Linked Data technology as envisioned by building relationships between them and creating links from those relationships. As envisioned by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Semantic web provides a layer of context, allowing machines to process information based on meaning and logical relations. It employs Natural Language Processing to parse large amounts of both structured and unstructured data; something that would not be possible with traditional relational tools

As defined by W3Cs Semantic Web Initiative, the goal is to "create a universal medium for the exchange of data. lt is envisaged to smoothly interconnect personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global sharing of commercial, scientific, and cultural data." Once data can be shared and processed by automated machine processes as well as by humans, it will reach its full potential.

Combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, the semantic web will allow greater accuracy in data mining, as selecting necessary data to meet user demand has proved challenging in the past. It has been proposed that intelligent agents parse searched data and derives results only semantically related to the user's search parameters.