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Semantic Web

Beginning from a small project , now web(popularly known as word wide web) consist of  billions of web pages hosted on millions of servers located across the globe. While Web has now become a basic source of Information covering a wide area of interest , (I must say ,almost all the area of interest where current research covering Science,Arts,Engineering is going on) , it also created a challenge of proper information retrieval from unstructured and semistructured web of data. Keeping these things in mind, Tim Berner Lee(The creator of www ) coined a term "Semantic Web", and defined it as: " a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines " According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries." In a Nutshell , the concept of Semantic Web can be described as: " The main purpose of