Web semantiko

Web semantikoa (Semantic Web) World Wide Web Consortiumen muinean garatutako jarduera multzo bat da, aplikazio informatikoek datu irakurgarriak argitaratzeko teknologia bermatzen duena.^[1] World Wide Webari metadatu ontologiko eta semantikoak gehitzeko ideian oinarritzen da.  Helburua interneta hobetzea da sistema informatikoen elkargarritasuna handituz, eragile adimenduak erabiliz. Eragile adimenduak informazioa era automatikoan eta gizakien laguntzarik gabe bilatzen duten programa informatikoak dira. 

Ideia honen aitzindaria, Tim Berners-Lee, hasieratik saiatu zen informazio semantikoa sartzen haren sorkuntzan (World Wide Web), baina arazo desberdinengatik ez zuen lortu.^[2] Arrazoi horrengatik landu zuen semantika.

1. ↑ (Ingelesez) "The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar? Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself. The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing." W3C Semantic Web Activity
2. ↑ Andy Carvin. "Tim Berners-Lee: (Ingelesez) Weaving a Semantic Web." in Digital divide network., 2005.