Next Big Step for the Web - Or a Detour?

by Paul Festa ZDNet News, 9 Mar 2005 Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? That's a question that advocates attending the Semantic Technology Conference here this week hope to put to rest. Standards specialists, venture capitalists, computer scientists and technology executives are meeting at the four-day conference to discuss enterprise applications for the Semantic Web -- the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) growing collection of protocols designed to make a wealth of new information accessible and reusable through the Web. Read the article