SPARQL Will Make the Web Shine

gsandler writes Here is a link to an eWeek article about a new technology standard that may enable the emergence of the semantic web. "One problem that both the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 have faced is a lack of good querying and search technologies designed specifically for them. This makes it hard to pull off some of the more enticing integrated programs and Web applications that Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web make possible. However, that finally may be changing. Recently, the World Wide Web Consortium released as a candidate recommendation a new technology designed to make the Semantic Web (and, in turn, much of Web 2.0) more searchable. Called SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), this standard brings about a standardized SQL-like query language for the Semantic Web."”