Advantages of semantic web technologies in the knowledge based society
Simona Elena Vârlan · 2010
As communication devices and the Internet become ubiquitous the world continues its progres-sion toward a knowledge-based society in which what you know equals the degree of your success. Knowledge sharing breaks down now time and distance barriers and makes people work in virtual of-fices and communicate and interact with each other around the world allowing them to learn from one another and share the same information no matter the geographical location they are. The inclusion of the web means that what once was done by direct implication between humans now occur using tech-nology and computers. Semantic Web technologies has developed very fast in the last past years and continues to grow as the importance of knowledge and technologies working together for human bene-fits becomes a necessary part in all the known domains: IT&C, economic, social, health and even political. The paper tries to show the importance of Semantic Web Technologies in a Knowledge Based Society providing some discussions on the technical background followed by examples of know-ledge representation based languages.