Web 3.0 definition
Web 3.0 Debates over Definition
Since the origins of the concept of Web 3.0, the debate continues goes on
about exactly what the term Web 3.0 means, and what a suitable definition might
be. As emerging the new technology, a new definition emerged:
Transforming the Web into a database
Transforming the Web into database is the beginning step towards
transforming definition of Web 3.0 when the technology of ?Data Web? emerged
as structured data records that can be published to the Web in reusable and
remotely queryable formats, such as XML, RDF and microformats. The Data Web is
the initial step in the way of full Semantic web that enables a new level of
data integration and application interoperability, which makes the data openly
accessible and linkable as Web pages. To make available structured data using
RDF is primarily focused in Data Web phase. The full Semantic Web stage will so
expand the scope that both structured and semi-structured or unstructured
content will be widely available in RDF and OWL semantic formats.
An evolutionary path to artificial intelligence
Web 3.0 has also been used to describe the trend of artificial intelligence,
which is being popular in the web like a quasi-human fashion. Some cynic
believes that it is an unobtainable vision. However, this is being used new
technologies on mass level that yields amazing information like making
predictions of hit songs from mining information on college music Web sites.
There is also debate on the driving force behind Web 3.0. Will it be the intelligent systems, or whether intelligence will emerge
in a more organic fashion and how people interact with it?
The realization of the Semantic Web and Service
Oriented Architecture
Another debate originates over the artificial intelligence direction in
which Web 3.0 can be extent to Semantic web concept. Academic research is going
on to develop such reasoning software that must be based on description logic
and intelligent agents. These sorts of applications can perform logical
reasoning operations through using sets of rules expressing logical
relationships between concepts and data on the Web.
But some critics are disagree on the viewpoint, which describes that Semantic Web would be the core of the 3rd generation of the Internet and suggests a formula to summarize Web 3.0.
Web 3.0 has also been associated to a possible hub of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Semantic web.
Evolution towards 3D
The evolution of 3D technology is also being connected to Web 3.0 as Web 3.0 may be used on massive scale due to its characteristics. In this process Web 3.0 would transform into a series of 3D spaces, taking the concept realized by Second Life expansion. This could open up new ways to connect and collaborate using 3D shared spaces.
Proposed Expanded Definitions of Web 3.0
Nova Spivack has proposed the expanded definition of Web 3.0 that indulge in itself
the collection of various foremost harmonizing technology developments that are
growing to a new level of maturity simultaneously includes:
- Ubiquitous Connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices
- Network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing
- Open technologies, Open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License)
- Open identity,OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data
- The intelligent web, Semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores
- Distributed databases, the "World Wide Database" (enabled by Semantic Web technologies)
- Intelligent applications, natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, and autonomous agents