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- The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a user's needs. Berners-Lee observes that although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. He foresees a number of ways in which developers and authors, singly or in collaborations, can use self-descriptions and other techniques so that context-understanding programs can selectively find what users want.

The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group at W3C is in charge of defining the specifications for the Semantic Web.

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15 Nov 2006

Read more about Semantic Web:

-	WSDL semantic annotations (SAWSDL) is in its final stages, according to WebServices.org.
-	Tim Berners-Lee was interviewed by the International Herald Tribune about the Semantic Web and "Web 3.0.'
-	In this New York Times article, "Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense," Web 3.0 is used to describe the Semantic Web.

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