Editing Semantic Web (section)

==History==
The term was coined by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] for a web of data (or '''data web''')<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-04-09/q-and-a-with-tim-berners-leebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice|title=Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee, Special Report |newspaper=Bloomberg|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> that can be processed by machines<ref name="Berners-Lee"/>—that is, one in which much of the [[meaning (linguistics)|meaning]] is [[machine-readable data|machine-readable]]. While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in [[Library science|library]] and [[information science]], industry, [[biology]] and [[human science]]s research have already proven the validity of the original concept.<ref>{{cite magazine |access-date=February 24, 2010 |url=http://www.thefigtrees.net/lee/sw/sciam/semantic-web-in-action |title=The Semantic Web in Action |magazine=Scientific American |date=May 1, 2007 |author=Lee Feigenbaum}}</ref>

Berners-Lee originally expressed his vision of the Semantic Web in 1999 as follows:
{{blockquote|I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web&nbsp;– the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "[[intelligent agent]]s" people have touted for ages will finally materialize.<ref>{{cite book |last=Berners-Lee |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Berners-Lee |author2=Fischetti, Mark |title=Weaving the Web |publisher=[[HarperSanFrancisco]] |year=1999 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780062515872/page/ chapter 12] |isbn=978-0-06-251587-2 |no-pp=true |title-link=Tim Berners Lee#Weaving the Web}}</ref>}}

The 2001 ''[[Scientific American]]'' article by Berners-Lee, [[James Hendler|Hendler]], and [[Ora Lassila|Lassila]] described an expected evolution of the existing Web to a Semantic Web.<ref>{{cite magazine |access-date=March 13, 2008 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/566c/1c6bd366b4c9e07fc37eb372771690d5ba31.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010210556/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/566c/1c6bd366b4c9e07fc37eb372771690d5ba31.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 10, 2017 |title=The Semantic Web |magazine=Scientific American |date=May 17, 2001|volume=284|number=5|pages=34–43 |last1=Berners-Lee|first1= Tim|last2=Hendler|first2=James|last3=Lassila|first3=Ora |s2cid=56818714|jstor=26059207}}</ref> In 2006, Berners-Lee and colleagues stated that: "This simple idea…remains largely unrealized".<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12614/1/Semantic_Web_Revisted.pdf
 | title=The Semantic Web Revisited
 | access-date=April 13, 2007
 | author1=Nigel Shadbolt
 | author2=Wendy Hall
 | author3=Tim Berners-Lee
 | year=2006
 | work=[[IEEE Intelligent Systems]]
 | archive-date=March 20, 2013
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320130521/http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262614/1/Semantic_Web_Revisted.pdf
 | url-status=dead
 }}</ref>
In 2013, more than four million Web domains (out of roughly 250 million total) contained Semantic Web markup.<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/keynote-ramanathan-v-guha.html
 | title=Light at the End of the Tunnel
 | access-date=March 8, 2015
 | author=Ramanathan V. Guha
 | year=2013
 | work=[[International Semantic Web Conference]] 2013 Keynote}}</ref>