Wikipedia.org Definition: The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.
SemanticWeb.org wiki definition: The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.
Semantic web is one of the Web3.0 technologies.
Semantic Vs. Syntax?
Syntax in linguistics: is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages.
Semantic: is the study of meaning.
How Semantic Web (SW) works?
Although the computers present the data (texts, imges & videos) from any given website well, yet computers doesn't understand the content of the website sent data.
Semnatic web aims to give a computer valid meaning for the data sent through any given website, through applying metadata to any given site, to make these data readable by computers.
Such process will help much the quality of search results dramatically.
The process is simple, suppose that you have a blog where you post essays about technology and gadgets, with different images, videos.
Now you want to improve your rank through search results for semantic web search engines, you are going to mark up your videos with metadata, it is easier for semantic search engines to relate, find and exchange information about the content posted.
