Semantic Web Applications

Authors

  • Misha Mehra
  • Nishant Kumar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.31.4.1113

Keywords:

World Wide Web, Semantic Web, Internet, knowledge management, social networking, electronic commerce, digital libraries

Abstract

With changing technology, the Internet has taken a pivotal role in all kinds of applications in our daily lives. To handle flood of information on the Internet, smarter Web technology is also required. This requirement has led to the advent of newer, smarter and better Web technology called 'Semantic Web'. Semantic Web is the next step in Web evolution. High usability of Semantic Web has found significant applications in the field of life sciences, crime investigation, scientific research, literary analysis, social networking, electronic commerce, knowledge management, digital libraries, defence, e-government, energy sector, financial services, healthcare, oil and gas industry, publishing, website back-ends, multimedia, etc. This paper discusses the most prominent areas for application of Semantic Web technology.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.31.4.1113

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Published

2011-07-19

How to Cite

Mehra, M., & Kumar, N. (2011). Semantic Web Applications. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 31(4). https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.31.4.1113

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 4 (2011): Semantic Web

Section

Special Issue on Visualising Libraries

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