Despite the recession, luggage retailer Ebags.com enjoyed phenomenal 2010 holiday sales — some 33% higher than the previous year. (The online retail sector as a whole reported a 15% gain this past ...

Market expansion is fueled by the shift from traditional data storage toward systems that support knowledge graphs, ontology-based reasoning, linked data, and semantic enrichment of all information ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving ...

Researchers hope that soon web technology will get to the point where, as you drive into town, an application spots a space in a nearby car park, calculates how long and what route to get there, and ...

It might seem like a subtle difference, but the machine-readable nature of the semantic web is likely to have an effect on our exploitation of information that is at least as profound as its ...

Those who understand the semantic web are split on its future Experts expect online information to be organized in smarter, more useful ways in coming years, but there is a dispute about whether the ...

Ever notice the URL in your browser address bar? (That's the www.something.com address you use to navigate to a Web site.) Today at NPR we are making that URL more useful for NPR.org users and for ...

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. In ...