From words to concepts: enabling shared semantic descriptions of Web contents by Tagpedia

The core purpose of the Semantic Web is to ease the search and the navigation of the huge amount of contents currently available on-line in order to reduce the information overload often experimented by Web users. This purpose is achieved by enriching the current Web with semantic descriptions of contents: they are standard-compliant representations of Web data that explicit their meanings in a way suitable to be automatically processed and aggregated. As a consequence software agents, driven by the informative needs of Web users, are enabled to support them in contents browsing by searching, interpreting, integrating and refining data from multiple on-line sources.