Semantic Web
Originally designed for document distribution, the Web has yet to realize its full potential for distributing data. Enter the semantic Web, spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1999. At the outset, the idea -- to transform the Web into something machines can readily analyze -- seemed hopelessly academic. Yet with significant public data sets surfacing in semantic Web form, the once strange notion could revolutionize how enterprise IT accesses and disseminates data via the Web.
