Significant buzz…

• There is quite a buzz around “Semantics”, “Semantic Technologies”, “Semantic Web”, “Web 3.0”, “Data Web”, etc, these days

• New applications, companies, tools, etc, come to the fore frequently

• It is, of course, not always clear what these terms all mean:

• • “Semantic Web” is a way to specify data and data relationships; it is also a collection of specific technologies (RDF, OWL, GRDDL, SPARQL, …)
  • “Semantic Technologies”, “Web 3.0” often mean more, including intelligent agents, usage of complex logical procedures, etc