You may have heard mention of the Semantic Web in

relation to Internet development, even if you have no real understanding of what the term actually means. If you have not, you are in good company, since even its developers and greatest advocates are not exactly sure about the final direction and scope of the project. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the World Wide Web, is working hard on Semantic Web development, and is doing its best to get the concepts out to ordinary Web users like us. But even so, the message is not always getting through, or is becoming garbled in the process. The same thing happened to Berners-Lee, when he initially tried to demonstrate his concept of a ‘Web ’ based o