Semantic web technology: the foundation for future enterprise systems

Abstract

The semantic web is an extension of the cu rrent web in which data and web resources is given more meaning by incorporating metadata . The incorporation of metadata lead s to an improved utilization of web resou r ces by soft ware applications, which will be acting on behalf of h u man users. In this paper we introduce the semantic web technologies, specifically RDF, RDF Schema and OWL tha t have be en recommend ed by the W3C. Particularly , we encourage the Ken y an web de v e loper to use these se ma ntic langua ges in addition to HTML in their projects.