We are now at Web 2.0 age! This concept was a big evolution in the way we share information and work together in the network environment. The most highlighted result from Web 2.0 is the improvement in COLLABORATION method!! Nowadays, it is hard to say “individuals” in the Internet, rather then, we should say “collective groups” in the digital net. Web 2.0 was responsible to enable many concepts, but of course we can highlight social networks and wiki systems as the most important applications available.
Those new systems enabled new ways to create, share, edit and improve information, knowledge, experience, ideas with people from different places. I can mention Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia! Web 2.0 is a real story of success!
How about Web 3.0? What it is? Where it is? How can I use? is this the future?
Web 3.0 is a big challenge! Web 3.0 means Web Semantic! This term means the way to structure the whole content available in the Internet within the concept of “Network Semantic”. In others words, this concept aims to set “meanings” for all words in the Internet based on the context.It seems to be a hard task! and, it is.
W3C is currently performing researches on this area. It is in the beginning, I just expect to see good real results in the following 3-5 years! Based on all researches released until now, we notice the better way to start an implementation of Web Semantic is applying this concept for a specific ontology (“Context”). There is a great government initiative in Brazil called LeXml (http://www.lexml.gov.br/). This project aims to enable an information network linking all the laws based on the same context.
Web 3.0 is currently an outstanding trend in the digital world, but still hard to preview its future. During the Campus Party Brazil 2009, Tim Berns-Lee told that the future of the web is a blank page waiting for new services, new creation, new concepts and technologies! I have already seen a great synergy between Grid, Cloud Computing and Web 3.0 for the future!
