Semantic Web

Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a Web whose data carries machine-readable meaning, built on standards such as RDF and OWL.

builds on

• World Wide Web project 1990 [src]

created by

• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 [src]

proposed by

• Semantic Web Road Map writing 1998 [src]

subject of

• A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work writing 2013 [src]
• Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia writing 2001 [src]
• The Semantic Web writing 2001 [src]
• The Semantic Web Revisited writing 2006 [src]
• The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview writing 2003 [src]
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data writing 2009 [src]
• Weaving the Web writing 1999 [src]

has part

• International Semantic Web Conference project 2002 [src]
• Linked Data concept 2006 [src1][src2]
• Semantic Web layer cake concept 2000 [src]

critiqued by

• The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview writing 2003 [src]
  Argues that the Semantic Web is a machine for syllogisms, which fail on slippery, partial, context-dependent data, and that any global ontology is doomed because metadata describes a worldview.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data writing 2009 [src1][src2]
  Contrasts hand-annotated semantics, slow and hard to agree on, with relationships learned from web-scale data.

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Date of the Semantic Web Road Map, the earliest catalogued proposal; Berners-Lee spoke of the idea earlier, from 1994.