Good Handbook_of_Semantic_Web_Technologies

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation [6]. For newcomers to the Semantic Web, the above definition taken from the article, which is often taken as the starting point for the research area, is as good a starting point as any. The goal of the Semantic Web is in some sense a counterpoint to the Web of 2001. That Web was designed as a global document repository with very easy routes to access, publish, and link documents, and Web documents were created to be accessed and read by humans.