To bee or not to bee

Tim writes here’s a neat look at the ‘semantic web‘. In the future the web will develop from a hotchpotch of unstructured information into a refined, indexed set of information resources that machines will be able to understand. The Semantic Web, which you could think of as the web mark two, will underpin all of this, they hope.

The underlying beauty of the Semantic Web is that it knows what it contains. Web searches have always been hit and miss because the search index is essentially unintelligent – it holds information that is referenced by keywords, without any context of what the information actually means.