Jonathan Fildes writes:
...Sir Tim [Berners-Lee] also outlined his next great vision for the web. Although it has been talked about for five years, the idea of making web pages understandable by machines, known as the semantic web, now seems to be coming together. ¶ Personal semantic software robots that could organise your life by bringing together data from calendars, retail information, health records and even global positioning satellites were discussed without a smirk. ¶ Although ideas like this are still some time off - no one seems to talk about time scales with the semantic web - some of the necessary infrastructure is complete and people are now building the tools to create the vision. ...
Link: BBC News. Note: Hyperlinks to Berners-Lee and semantic web added. --Dennis
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