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Semantic Web

The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0, is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable.

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Semantic Web

Nodes166
Edges165
Triples244
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012048
Components1

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Semantic Web

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related to Further reading · 65
Semantic Web → Aaron Swartz's, ACM, ACM Books, Allemang, An, August, Bibcode, Claypool Publishers, Communications, CRCPress, Dean, December, Deepak, Developer's Guide, Edition, Effective Modeling, Explorer's Guide, Fabien, FAIRification, February
has application · 33
Semantic Web → ACACIA, Berlin, Corese, Corporate Ontology Engineering, Corporate Semantic Collaboration, Corporate Semantic Search, Corporate Semantic Web, Documents, E-learning, Free University, HTML, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, JSON-LD, Many, Microdata, Microformat, Note, RDF, RDFa, Relational
related to Components · 23
Semantic Web → Interchange Format, JSON-based, JSON-LD, Linked Data, Mastodon, N3, OWL, RDF, RDFS, Resource Description Framework, RIF, Schema, Simple Knowledge Organization System, SKOS, SPARQL, Terse RDF Triple Language, The, These, This, Triples
related to Challenges · 19
Semantic Web → Any, Automated, By, Cryptography, Deceit, Deductive, Defeasible, For, Fuzzy, Inconsistency, Probabilistic, Some, The SNOMED CT, The World Wide Web, These, This, Uncertainty, Vagueness, Vastness
related to Semantic Web solutions · 17
Semantic Web → Extensible HTML, Extensible Markup Language, HTML, In, It, OWL, RDF, Resource Description Framework, The, The Semantic Web, These, Thus, Web, Web Ontology Language, Web-accessible, XHTML, XML
related to background · 16
Semantic Web → Allan, Collins, Elizabeth, He, Loftus, Richard, Richens, Ross Quillian, The, The Semantic Web, This, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, Web, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium
related to Doubling output formats · 12
Semantic Web → Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Another, Dialects, Gleaning Resource Descriptions, However, HTML, Language, RDF, RDFa, Specifications, The, The GRDDL
related to history · 11
Semantic Web → Amit Sheth, Berners-Lee, Conference, In, International World Wide Web, October, Semantic Web Road, The, Tim Berners-Lee, Web, While
see also · 10
Semantic Web → AGRISBusiness, DBpediaEntity, Geospatial WebSemantic, MediaWikiSemantic Sensor WebSemantic, Open Data PortalHistory, OWLSemantic, Reuters, WebSemantically-Interlinked Online CommunitiesSmart-M3Social Semantic, WebWeb, World Wide WebHyperdataInternet
related to Practical feasibility · 9
Semantic Web → According, As, Critics, In, Marshall, Semantic Web's, Shipman, The, World-Wide Web

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Important terminology

web semantic data rdf html information technologies used example knowledge language ontology owl content metadata semantics w3c documents world wide

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Semantic Webis alikely falling price of human intelligence tasks in digital labor markets0.90text
Resource Description Frameworkinstance oftechnologies0.80text
reasoning over datainstance ofThese embedded semantics offer significant advantages0.80text
operating with heterogeneous data sourcesinstance ofThese embedded semantics offer significant advantages0.80text
the Richard Hinstance ofThe concept of the semantic network was used in the 1950s and 1960s by researchers0.80text
imagesinstance ofa markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects0.80text
interactive formsinstance ofa markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects0.80text
items for sale or prices.Microformats extend HTML syntax to create machine-readable semantic markup about objects including peopleinstance ofBut this practice falls short of specifying the semantics of objects0.80text
organizationsinstance ofBut this practice falls short of specifying the semantics of objects0.80text
eventsinstance ofBut this practice falls short of specifying the semantics of objects0.80text
productsinstance ofBut this practice falls short of specifying the semantics of objects0.80text
peopleinstance ofcan describe arbitrary things0.80text

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