Semantic Web
Vision for extending the Web with machine-readable semantics, enabling software agents to query and integrate data across sources automatically.
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Berners-Lee Proposes the Semantic Web
In 1999–2001, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, outlined the Semantic Web vision, a machine-readable extension of the existing web in which data would carry explicit meaning, culminating in a widely cited May 2001 Scientific American article co-authored with James Hendler and Ora Lassila.