Semantic web
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Semantic means meaning, so semantic web is a web of meaning, not just of hyperlinks. In practical terms, this requires agreeing how to represent natural (i.e. human) languages in a format that computers can understand.
This is a significant challenge, but the upshot would be that rather than laboriously guessing keywords and typing them into a glorified text matcher such as Google, it would be able to specifically make a query and ask a question in a language to human language.
Spearheaded by W3C, this is not yet kicking off, this has been many years in the coming, but is closer than ever, with more and more data being converted into computer readable format, and sites such as Wikipedia organising it ever more systematically.
Relationship to F2F
F2F is built on a core of namespaced XML, and is therefore well suited for the semantic web, since the basic language, RDF is designed to be expressed in XML. The decentralised nature of F2F also suits the W3C semantic web technologies (e.g. URIs). Because they are designed to be processed by computers rather than humans, semantic web languages (like XML) have to be much more precise than natural language (or HTML). A system which is XML-driven, and designed for automatic creation of XML seems like a potentially useful tool.
