Presented to
Prof. Dr. Eduard Heindl E Business Technology Hochschule Furtwangen University
Presented by Norasak Suphakorntanakit Matriculation Number 230408 25 June 2008
Statement of Declaration
I hereby certify that this term paper is written by me. All literatures and knowledge sources that are used as references in this term paper are cited in reference part.
Norasak Suphakorntanakit 18 June 2008 Furtwangen, Germany
Table of Contents
1. What’s web 3.0? 2. How can semantic web work? 3. What are the differences between web 2.0 and web 3.0? 4. Why web 3.0 is important? 5. Case studies 6. Conclusion 7. Reference
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1. What’s web 3.0? Web 3.0 is the concept of next evolution of World Wide Web about linking, integrating, and analyzing data from various sources of data to obtain new information streams. Also, Web 3.0 aims to link devices to generate new approaches of connecting to the web by several machines and exchanging data among machines. However, the standard definition of Web 3.0 has not yet been emerged at this moment since Web 3.0 is mainly under developing by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to become a reality (Steve Bratt, Fast forward get ready for Web 3.0, 2008, P. 25-27). The main important purpose of Web 3.0, to link data, is supported by semantic web. Semantic web is a web that can demonstrate things in the approach which computer can understand. The system offers a common framework that helps data to be connected, shared and reused across the applications, organizations and communities. The semantic web allows a person or a machine to begin with one database and then link through an infinity set of open databases which are not connect by wires, but connect data by referring into common things such as a person, place, idea, concept, etc. Semantic web mainly operates on Resource Description Framework (RFD) which is standard model for data interchange on the web. RDF is written in XML language that can