Toward a Web of data and programs

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web can be attributed largely to the power it has given to people to share and link documents. Growth of a much richer Web of the future could very well be driven by its ability to enable applications and people to share and link data and services over a broad range of devices. The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) is developing new standards in the areas of Web services and the semantic Web that are fueling this enhancement of the Web. Implementation of these standards is growing rapidly.