Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have teamed up to encourage Web page operators to make the meaning of their pages understandable to search engines. Web of words: This graph of linked phrases lets ...

The Semantic Web, a concept tossed around for years as a Web extension to make it easier to find and group information, is getting a critical boost Tuesday from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. In ...