What Does Semantic Web Mean?

The Semantic Web is a mesh of data that are associated in such a way that they can easily be processed by machines instead of human operators. It can be conceived as an extended version of the existing World Wide Web, and it represents an effective means of data representation in the form of a globally linked database. By supporting the inclusion of semantic content in Web pages, the Semantic Web targets the conversion of the presently available Web of unstructured documents to a Web of information/data.

Techopedia Explains Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is driven by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It builds on W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF), and is usually designed with syntaxes that use Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to represent data. These syntaxes are known as RDF syntaxes. The inclusion of data to RDF files enables computer programs or Web spiders to search, discover, collect, assess and process the data on the Web.