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The term “Semantic Web” was coined “by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”), which oversees the development of proposed Semantic Web standards. He defines the Semantic Web as “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” According to … Continue reading
Information in the form of files consisting text, images, audio, video, or multimedia, may be digitized and may be shared across computers by using the protocols of the Internet. The practice of “distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia, documents or electronic books, via the internet, may be known … Continue reading
The protocol used to enable and maintain the internet is known as the internet protocol. Since the internet represents a ‘network of networks’, several protocols are required and it is known as a protocol suite. The internet protocol suite is “the networking model and a set of communications protocols used for the Internet and similar … Continue reading
The terms “Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. In contrast, the web is one of the services that runs on the Internet. It is a … Continue reading
An extranet is a “computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes. In a business-to-business context, an extranet can be viewed as an extension of an organization’s intranet that is extended to users outside the organization, usually partners, vendors and suppliers, in isolation from all other Internet users. … Continue reading
The Internet is “a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users worldwide. It is a “network of networks” that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of … Continue reading
Internet radio (web/ net/ cyber/ virtual/ streaming/ online/ webcasting/ e-radio) distributes digital audio service by utilizing the internet technology. Internet radio offers news, various genres of music, sports, talk shows, and almost every other type of programme that is featured on traditional broadcast radio stations. Internet radio can be listened on an internet-enabled standard home … Continue reading
Internet television (online/ virtual/ cyber/ web television) distributes digital television content utilizing the technologies of the internet. The distribution may be done in two ways, namely as live streaming content to the media player or as downloaded content on the user’s computer. The content may consist of television shows and advertisements. Television companies may offer … Continue reading
Recommender systems/ engines/ platforms, are “software tools and techniques that provide suggestions for items and/or services to be of use to a user.” The internet has given rise to an information explosion and users are offered with hundreds of choices. As the collection grows on the internet, the choices also grow simultaneously. Nowadays, the collection … Continue reading
The massive information explosion as witnessed by the internet, necessitates the usage of filtering the vast amount of information and extraction of relevant information. To this end, several filtering techniques like content-based filtering, knowledge-based filtering, demographic filtering, and collaborative filtering may be used. Each of these techniques have their own respective shortcomings like cold-start problem, … Continue reading
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