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It is the name for the collaborative movement and the goal of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which is the lead organization for the inclusion of semantic (or standards across all web platforms) content for all web pages. Its aim is to convert the current web dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into a web of structured data.
The term was first introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C, which oversees the development of proposed Semantic Web standards, which will, if their movement takes on the authority they are working toward, in the future become “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.”
If these standards are adopted across platforms and become the norm, the semantic web will provide a base framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Although, in theory, these identified standards and the evolution of this movement has seen some support. This common sense approach for development of web applications and interfaces, which would help standardize functionality and user satisfaction in many ways, hasn’t been the sweeping trend. W3C’s goals of realizing the universal acceptance of a semantic web still has an uphill battle ahead.
