Software Means for the Support of Semantic Web

This article discusses the means of software design that gives Web search semantic character. This work focus on system Magpie. Magpie is tool that interprets contents of web pages. Magpie helps user to find relevant information from a chosen area of interest. Common Web search approaches return only web pages that contain search phrases. On the other side, Web with semantic layer improves machine processing of data from the Web source. Semantic layer is dependent on the ontology availability. Ontology helps with assigning meaning to the information on web page and offers user additional functions based on semantic services.