What is "Semantic Web"?

"The Semantic Web is a web that is able to describe things in a way that computers can understand."
"The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content."

The Semantic Web is a much smarter vesion of the internet that we know already. Although the World Wide Web gives us information, Semantic Web takes into consideration that we need applications in order to gain this information. It is able to run on applications, and although it may be several years until we see the Semantic Web up and running, the capabilities of it will be so beneficial and helpful in a world of digital technologies.


http://www.w3schools.com/semweb/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web