Semantic Web

English

Alternative forms

• semantic Web, semantic web

Proper noun

Semantic Web

1. (Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.
   • 2008 February 1, Anne Eisenberg, “Twine ties things together on Web”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Twine is based on technologies created for the developing semantic Web - foreseen as a smarter Web where machines may someday be able to process the meaning of words and phrases in documents and even routinely answer direct questions.

See also

• Web 3.0