The Semantic Web vision has drove hundreds of practitioners to research and develop a new bread of applications that could take the full potential of the Web to the next level. While there is a fairly clear understanding of where Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 stand now a day, the current status and position of the Semantic Web, also known as Web 3.0, is not as clear and well defined. Therefore, in this paper we present a landscape that illustrates and captures the trends in the Semantic Web with the purpose of guiding future developments.
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Cardoso, J. (2009). The Semantic Web: A mythical story or a solid reality?. In: Sicilia, MA., Lytras, M.D. (eds) Metadata and Semantics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77745-0_24
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