From Web to Semantic Web

Although the targeted audience of this book is professionals and researchers who are presumably somewhat familiar with the current state of the art when it comes to the Internet, World Wide Web, Web programming, semantic technologies, etc., this chapter will provide a very brief background of the history of the World Wide Web and its current relevant technologies essential to semantically enabled serviceoriented architectures. Second, to bring the reader “up-to-speed” and to establish a common ground to base the rest of the chapters on, this chapter will emphasize the limits of the current Web technologies in order to clearly motivate the need for the technological advancements proposed in this book. The chapter’s twofold purpose is then to provide sufficient background information and to prove that the technologies of the SemanticWeb provide the foundation on which Semantically Enabled Serviceoriented Architecture (SESA) is able to functionally operate.