Change Agent

Ever wondered what will the Web be in the next couple of years. A massive amount of data is generated every day, even my blog today will be part of the same bulk. But is it really being utilized or has it just become a success or failure measure of the innumerable web pyramid.

Today, the journey from data to information has become an arduous task or may be impossible. There is a need to prune this data and extract all the useful information from it, thus creating a information management system which would be much bigger than wikipedia, much cleaner than what Google provides and up to date to the second.

One of the evolving extensions to the World Wide Web is Sematic Web.

Tim Berners-Lee originally expressed the vision of the semantic web as follows:

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I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.

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Some years back , when Google was relatively new and Web 2.0 term was not born, I was working on a concept named "Deep Web".In 2000, it was estimated that the deep Web contained approximately 7,500 terabytes of data and 550 billion individual documents. The question I would like to bring up is whether the sematic web will also contain this invisible web or again its just the visible part of the web that we are looking at?.

 I will try to look into this aspect of the web in my subsequent posts...