Semantic Web project Semantic Web as an extension of the current Web

Since the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been at the forefront of setting up the technologies needed for the Web, such as communication protocols and mark-up languages, (X)HTML for presentation, XML for certain forms of content description and many other languages, the list of which would be very long. The role of the W3C, which brings together numerous organizations, is first and foremost to produce recommendations for the Web, which often become de facto standards after extensive, open and complex discussion processes. However, despite the power of the tools developed worldwide and the availability of multiple sources of information, accessing and exploiting these resources remains fundamentally the responsibility of human users, and is a highly time-consuming process, even if some surface-level computer processing can help human users.

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