semantic Web

or se·man·tic web or Se·man·tic Web

[ si-man-tik web ]

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention:

   the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.

semantic Web

noun

1. a proposed development of the World Wide Web in which computers can interpret and act on natural language

Word History and Origins

Origin of semantic Web¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; 1960–65 for earlier sense “network of meanings”

Example Sentences

Enslaved.org uses a powerful database similar to those used by Wikipedia and Yelp to surface information in what is known as the Semantic Web.

From Washington Post

The team presented its results at the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences meeting in Rome in December 2017.

From Nature

In "Broad Band," Evans writes of these technologies with admiration: Resource One used its mainframe to operate a Social Services Referral Directory, Women's Wire hosted domestic abuse resources, and computer scientist Wendy Hall's Microcosm predated the semantic web.

From Los Angeles Times

The answer, as Future Tense has previously reported, lies chiefly in the shift toward the “semantic web,” which standardizes the sorting and structuring of web pages so that computers can read them directly.

From Slate

He left to study at university in Germany, and has been overseas since, researching semantic web technologies and big data processing in an environment that has given him the resources to thrive.

From Washington Times