http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html

The W3C home of the Semantic Web is at http://www.w3c.org/2001/sw/ and gives this intro: "The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." -- Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila.

One concrete example of realizing the Semantic Web is the ResourceDescriptionFramework (RDF), http://www.w3c.org/RDF/ - this is used in the definition of RichSiteSummary (RSS, originally created by Netscape), which in turn is used for TWikiSyndication.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Aug 2001

See InterWikiAsSemanticMarkup for a simple form of semantic markup possible today with TWiki.

-- RichardDonkin - 14 Aug 2001

Updated last bit of Peter's comment (about RDF and Netscape) to reflect latest understanding.

-- RichardDonkin - 19 Feb 2002

There's an interesting article about how Google could take over e-commerce through support for the Semantic Web. Quite thought-provoking...

-- RichardDonkin - 29 Jul 2002

Excellent! The Semantic Web? Oh, don't get me started! TWikiAsWebProxy is very related as are AnnoteaProject, Plugins.TouchGraphAddOn and IbisWiki. This Portal is fun. The TAG is interesting as well. I look forward to the dialog.

-- GrantBow - 15 Jan 2003