Two new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before.
The consortium disclosed Tuesday the new standards — the Web ontology language (OWL) and the resource definition framework (RDF) — as part of its overall effort to make the Net more friendly to users. The concept behind the push toward these new standards is called the Semantic Web.
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W3C Standards To Usher In Era of Reliable Searching
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski February 11, 2004 08:55 AMTwo new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before.
The consortium disclosed Tuesday the new standards — the Web ontology language (OWL) and the resource definition framework (RDF) — as part of its overall effort to make the Net more friendly to users. The concept behind the push toward these new standards is called the Semantic Web.