My mind is exploding.....

During the second session of 'web-based multimedia development' I faced to a new terminology: 'semantic web'. Actually befor this I saw that, but I didn't know the exact meaning. I became eager to know about it. I searched in Net and also refered to several books-Semantic Web : concepts, technologies and applications, Semantic web : revolutionizing knowledge discovery in the life sciences, and Semantic web : technologies : trends and research in ontology-based systems. I could just have a look and I got a headache.... Oh, technology is developed beyond my mind. I cannot imagine ...

"The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content." (wikipedia)

According to (Karin K.Breitman, Marco Antonio, Walter Truszkowski, 2007) "the semantic content is the meaning of the information in a web page, is coded in a way that is accessible to human beings alone."

I'm not sure, but as I understood, semantic web focuses on the meaning of the information. As an illustartion, before this when we searched 'flower', the results were just about the flower itself, but now, with the semantic web technology the result will cover all aspects of 'flower' such as color, smell, type, and other peroperties.