I just had an interesting twitter dispute with Ian, triggered by his invention of another alias for the Semantic Web. For last year's webinale I created a slide with which I tried to "de-confuse" people a little bit, I guess I'll need several slides this year. This is mostly just for future reference, not many of those are going to stick anyway:
A list of terms people use to name (a subset/aspect/whatever of) the "Semantic Web":
- Semantic Web (by timbl)
- SemWeb (by the developer community)
- Web of Data (by timbl)
- Data Web (by timbl)
- The Web as a Database (by timbl)
- Web of Knowledge (by stefandecker)
- lowercase semantic [wW]eb (by tantek)
- Knowledge Web (by ?)
- Semantic Web 2.0 (by stefandecker)
- Web 3.0 (by nova)
- Semantic Graph (by nova)
- Hyperdata (by danja)
- Linked Data (by timbl)
- Linked Data Web (by kidehen)
- Structured Web (by the structured blogging community and mkbergman)
- Semantic Data Web (by kidehen)
- GGG - The Giant Global Graph (by timbl)
- Web 3G (by iand)
See also: Interblag
And I fear there are more (even w/o considering "Pipe Dream", "Ivory Towers Inc." and similar ones). I like "Structured Web" and "Hyperdata" very much. But at the end of the day (yes, I know silly jargon as well), I think we'll just call it the [sS]emantic [wW]eb ;-)
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Anyways, I will put my hand up and admit using the following:
* Semantic Web and SemWeb
* Data Web and Web of Data
* Linked Data
* Web of Linked Data
I like Knowledge Web, thats quite nice. I think I have also used "Interconnected Web of Knowledge and Knowledge Domains".
But essentially, you are right. It is just terminology pointing towards the same thing, the Semantic Web.
Many thanks,
Daniel Lewis