Glimpse of Semantic Web and its Application Across Industries

Abstract

The most used tools to access data existing in web are the search engines. Traditional search engines are inefficient in the sense that it produces results that are mostly left for humans to interpret and consume and mostly not specific to the user’s search context. Semantic web creates machine/application readable data. Semantic web extends the traditional search engines and helps them produce context specific and meaningful search results by reading and assimilating the data before producing the search results. Also, Semantic web has been helping in externalizing data for sharing and reusability across users and applications. This paper explains some of the concepts of semantic web, and touches upon some of its industry applications with focus on knowledge/information management and sharing.