Interview with Tim Berners-Lee, who first created the web

A recent interview with Tim Berners-Lee: Isn’t it semantic? : Articles : Internet : BCS.
There are some interesting points there, but the real significant stuff is towards the end, about the “Semantic Web”. People familiar with Berners-Lee’s Book, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, will know that this has been his pet project for many years now. I think that for the development community it’s an especially important project. If things work out as planned, the development of the semantic web and web savvy ontologies will make it possible to tie together, by various levels of association, a wide range of electronic resources, no matter what the language or context. For example, this could increase the accessibility of indigenous knowledge. It could also increase researchers’ accessibility to resource from other fields, where a different terminology may be used to describe similar things. Lots of potential, lots of uses.