
W3C Adopts Semantic Standard for Web Data
August 18th, 2009 admin
Topics: browser, collection, congress, data, library, mozilla, network, online, software & tools, video, wants-better, WebMonkey

The web’s governing body wants to make it easier for researchers to find the data they’re seeking using web-based tools. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a whole department, the Semantic Web group , dedicated to integrating data from different sources under a set of common formats. On Tuesday, the group adopted a set of standardized organizational tags that anyone publishing data on the web should start using
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