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13:44 29th July 2009
Semantic web technologies could be used to bring together education resources, a new report says.
According to the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, information on the internet can be better sourced if the technology is adopted.
Dr Thanassis Tiropanis, one of the report's authors, says the technologies are already in operation "in internal databases, virtual learning environments, file systems and internal or external Web pages".
It is likely people in programming and networking careers will have to come to terms with the semantic web, sometimes referred to as Web 3.0.
The inventor of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has noted the new web will link all types of things, not just those found within certain networks.
"Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web," he told the Times Online.
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