I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN: Rensselaer Polytech Tetherless World
Constellation researchers are working on a software development
tool kit they hope will help usher in the Semantic Web, an
approach proposes to create a more intelligent Internet
infrastructure that can assign meaning to the concepts being
searched and, to some degree, have an understanding of the
researcher's intent. Image: © ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ANDREY PROKHOROV
The Internet grew out of an idea to connect various and
disparate sources of data, delivering to researchers around the
globe unprecedented access to information via their computer
screens. As e-Science evolves alongside Web 2.0, however, some
are pushing for a fundamental change in the way the Internet
catalogues and organizes data to make it more readily available
to the growing number of interdisciplinary and highly
specialized researchers who spend their working hours nearly
entirely online and who tend to collaborate online. Whereas this
is not a new argument—the idea of a more intuitive "Se