INTERNET TECHNOLOGY:

IF THE term is news to you, don't feel too bad. Until fairly recently, the semantic web - also known as Web 3.0 - has mostly been the subject of research work, trials and theorising. But it is starting, tentatively, to become a slow-growing reality, with potential legal implications for web users, especially organisations that manage large amounts of data.

That's because the core idea of the semantic web is making information available to and understandable by other computers on the web, which in turn makes it more easily and accurately searched, archived, used and reused, manipulated, mined and accessed. Read more...