Semantic Web Ready, says W3C's Tim Berners-Lee

At the World Wide Web 2006 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, W3C director Tim Berners-Lee announced that all the required infrastructure and technologies are now in place for the Semantic Web to become a reality. The World Wide Web, as we know it, has all the information in the world, and though search engines like Google have made it a lot easier for humans to access it, it is still unstructured for machines to be able to interpret the data by themselves. The Semantic Web is a set of underlying technologies, like the RDF (Resource Description Framework) data language and the new SPARQL query language, that addresses that issue.