Semantic web: golden era of information

Abstract

Semantic Web is the extension of existing web that allows well defined expressions for the meaning of information which can be understood by computers and people both. In this paper we are doing study on semantic and is our review paper. Semantic web is a recommended development project by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) which focuses on the enhancing of information search by keeping the facts in structured form using eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) and marked in such a way that it can be understand by the system. To make the development of semantic web promising, new international standard is developed for exchanging of ontologies called OWL Web Ontology language. In XML we just provide tag of the model and store data in the hierarchy without its meaning, that’s why the computer cannot be able to process the data but in Semantic Web user can provide with a definition so that the computer can better recognize its meaning and provide with the better displaying of information. A crux of semantic web is that it works on the definition of the ontologies. Ontologies are responsible for re-usability and sharing of information. Semantic Web provides with a shared language which has stored data in the non-ending linking of distinct databases which provides data related to the real world objects. RDF is a common language for semantic web and is responsible for the collection of data on web and assembles different database from diverse sources and SPARQL is there for linking of databases for unifying documents. Thus, semantic web is the well-structured data web that relates all the data that present on the web and understands them to provide the exact display requested by the end user.