The "semantic Web" is hugely important to tomorrow's business. Do not underestimate its significance: It truly changes everything. Embrace it, or risk extinction. But what is it? And what does it mean ...

Despite the recession, luggage retailer Ebags.com enjoyed phenomenal 2010 holiday sales — some 33% higher than the previous year. (The online retail sector as a whole reported a 15% gain this past ...

"The Web will become more than what we see on our computer screens, it will become a place where computers interact with each other and where meaning is attached to information." That is the vision ...

Market expansion is fueled by the shift from traditional data storage toward systems that support knowledge graphs, ontology-based reasoning, linked data, and semantic enrichment of all information ...

Researchers hope that soon web technology will get to the point where, as you drive into town, an application spots a space in a nearby car park, calculates how long and what route to get there, and ...

Swoogle, the Semantic web search engine, is a research project carried out by the ebiquity research group in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...

Computerworld QuickStudies Tim Berners-Lee — the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in 1989, wrote the first Web browser and server in 1990 and currently directs the World Wide Web ...