Salih Ismail and Talal Shaikh, Heriot Watt University - Dubai, UAE

There are various definitions, view and explanations about Semantic Web, its usage and its underlying architecture. However, the various flavours of explanations seem to have swayed way off-topic to the real purpose of Semantic Web. In this paper, we try to review the literature of Semantic Web based on the original views of the pioneers of Semantic Web which includes, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Dean Allemang, Ora Lassila and James Hendler. Understanding the vision of the pioneers of any technology is cornerstone to the development. We have broken down Semantic Web into two approaches which allows us to reason with why Semantic Web is not mainstream.

Semantic Web, Literature Review, Pioneers’ Perspective