An Investigation on Semantic Web
Syntactic Web, R. Gogulakrishnan, K. Thirumalaivasan, S. Nithiya · 2013
The web is meant for human consumption rather than the machine consumption. At present scenario, everything on the web is machine readable, not machine understandable. The method for data handling in the traditional web (The Syntactic web) is tedious, time consuming, and also provides many unrelated information. The Syntactic web (Current Web) provides an interface for users to render HTML documents and retrieve linked documents with simple user interface commands. On the other hand, Semantic Web making the web more understandable by machines and provide accurate results. So Semantic Web is needed to express the information in a precise, machine interpretable form. This Web aims to convert the current web, which is dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into 'web of data'. In addition, Semantic web integrates the information in an intelligent way and providing semantic based access to the internet. Semantic is building an appropriate infrastructure for intelligent agents to run around the web performing complex action for their users extracting information from texts. Semantic web also provides automated information access based on Machine - processable semantics of data and heuristics that use these metadata. This paper presents a comparative study of Syntactic and Semantic web technologies.