Week Nine - Task 6: Web 3.0

How does it (semantic web) differ from web 3.0?

The Internet began as Web 1.0, the basis internet providing access to a lot of information, but little interaction. Then Web 2.0 was developed, introducing to the Internet to much interaction; social networking, produsage, file sharing, you tube, blogging, wiki’s. Web 3.0 therefore is the next fundamental change to the Internet.

It is speculated that the next phase of the web will be based around artificial intelligence, meaning the Internet will be able to separate the good from the bad when using a search engine (Nations, D). “In other words, the web is becoming smart” (Richards, J). It’s also suggested that an example of the web 3.0 is ‘natural-language search’ meaning search engines will have the ability to answer full questions.

The Semantic Web can be integrated into Web 3.0; it will be part of the next phase of the Internet. Web 3.0 will include web 2.0, the Semantic Web and linked data (See image). ‘Linked data’ is an expression used to describe the growing RDF (Resource Description Framework) development space and ‘Semantic Web’ is a term being used to describe coupling linked data with RDF’s and OWL (Web Ontology Language). In turn, the phrase ‘Web 3.0’ describes the use of these capabilities which are essentially a large scale web application including Web 2.0 technologies (Hendler, J).

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The way the semantic web differs from web 3.0 is that it is a part of what is predicted to be web 3.0.

Nations,D (n.d.) “What is Web 3.0?”, About.com, http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/what-is-web-30.htm
Hendler, J. (2009) “Web 3.0 Emerging”, Computer, Volume 42 (1) pp. 111-113, http://libresproxy.lincoln.ac.uk/nph-proxy.pl/010100A/http/www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/co/2009/01/mco2009010111.htm Richards, J (2007) “Web 3.0 and Beyond: The Next 20 Years of the Internet”, The Times Online, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece