5) What is the 'semantic web'?

I have to admit then while researching this it did take me a while to get my head around it but I think I got there in the end! The Semantic Web was a term thought up by Tim Berners- Lee (who also thought up the WWW fact fans!!!)and is basically a huge engineering tool. In technical jargon it is about "common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources" (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/). It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. It allows anyone on the Internet to add what they know and find answers to their questions in a relatively easy language to understand.Therefore, it is generally an extension of the World Wide Web (which isnt surprising considering who came up with the idea!) and a way of making global data easily accessible and readable on a global scale.