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WEB 3.0
Mustafa Zari Department of Information Technology Dr.J.J.Magdum College of Engineering, Jaysingpur.
The information revolution created by the Internet quickly transformed communications into a vital part of business and everyday life. Yet, as pervasive as the Internet now is, it is still evolving and is poised to enter a new stage of development that will make it more intelligent, aware, and accessible. The Foundation Laid by Web 1.0 and 2.0 The foundation for todays information services explosion was laid with Web 1.0, the read-only web. The initial system created a constantly growing library of information published on static websites, that users could access directly via browsers or discover via search engines. In web 1.0, a small number of writers created web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source that allowed people to search for information and read it, to which we call read-only. There was very little in the way of content contribution. However, this is exactly what most website owners wanted: Their goal for a website was to establish an online presentation and make their information available to anyone at any time. The Web 2.0 can be summarized as the natural evolution of the Web, with its foundations in the development of services that focus on users and their active participation. Web 2.0, often called the read-write web or the social web where they can add their own content, made the Internet easy for users to understand and use and allowed them to participate in creating and publishing content. Users could share their ideas with others via blogs, wikis, and social networking sites. A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumer) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumer) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social-networking sites, blogs, google, facebook.
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E-commerce Chats Portals
E-learning Audio RSS
E-mail Blogging Wiki
Audio Bookmarking Community
Forums Filesharing Mapping
Table 1: Web 2.0 Website Types
Web 2.0 has become an integral part of life and business. Companies, government agencies, and other organizations have leveraged the technologys publishing and participatory attributes to create new applications and business models for both internal and outward-facing needs. However, the information contained on the web today has little structure, which limits its potential use. Web 2.0 is also constrained by the extraordinary volume of information available, the escalating rate at which content is published, and the inability of the existing system to integrate data that originates from different sources or in different formats. Web 3.0: To Provide Better User Experience Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe the evolution of Web usage and interaction that includes transforming the Web into a database,, a move towards making content accessible by multiple non-browser applications. Web 3.0 will be read-writeexecute web where AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Self learning - process of learning from past experience: in case of websites learning from past data and interaction of user - will go hand-inhand. Web 3.0 is an era in which we will upgrade the back-end of the Web, after a decade of focus on the front-end. Web 3.0 is the designation generally associated with the evolution to an Intelligent Web. Its anticipated that the intelligent web will address the lack of structure and organization in Web 2.0 by linking information from disparate sources and systems to make the web even easier to use, more efficient, and more valuable to its users. Web 3.0 is also referred to as the semantic web because it will use semantics computer processable meaning- to interpret searchable content and thus deliver more appropriate and relevant content to end-users. Generally, Web 3.0 emphasizes on three main features: The capability of obtaining contextual information from a web search
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The ability to obtain information drawn from a variety of previously incompatible or walled applications or sources The engagement of all types of devices and machines in the data creation, data use, and communication process that informs our daily lives, our work, and our businesses.
Context Is its Differentiator One of the fundamental features of Web 3.0 will be its capability to use unstructured information on the web more intelligently by formulating meaning from the context in which the information is published. A user, for example, will be able to process text-based information in ways that are similar to the methods employed today to process structured or numeric data from spreadsheets and databases. A search engine will be able to understand queries presented as full questions and serve up accurate and relevant results, even if the results do not necessarily contain the specific search terms used. Openness between Data Sources The capability to cross-reference, interconnect, process, and remix data, applications, and information from the many diverse sources on the web introduces a new level of openness in the information technology sector. The opportunities to integrate and mingle data introduced by these new capabilities will also make it possible for companies and organizations that deliver public and private cloud-based services to team up to deliver new products. The Hyperconnected Age Interactivity with the web will reach new levels as a result of hyperconnectivity between people, computers, and connected devices such as smart phones, cameras. Soon the body of connected devices will include a wide range of sensor-equipped and networked products, from energy-using appliances in the home, such as refrigerators like newly launched Samsungs Android refrigerator, to routine office equipment, such as web-enabled printers. The increasing activity on the web will continue to grow by orders of magnitude, which in turn will help build the information it contains and its collective intelligence. The higher level of engagement with the web will be stimulated, as well, by the increasing conveniences of automated services offered over these devices by the intelligent web.
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Finally, I would say that Web 3.0 will be a very big Expert System capable of analyzing all the data on the Web the content, links, and transactions between people and computers which will lead the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by Intelligent Agents - machines talking to machines.
