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