Greetings Tina, If you come to think about it, what happens to a Web page in Google Search's results listing if you take out Schema.org markup? you're only left with human readable information, this is only from a presentation point of view, think Information Retrieval and this thing called the SW makes a lot of sense to use.
Moving on to Inferences, if you used the right Ontology, you could start to infer newer facts that we've never stored in the triple store in the first place, among many other things It's like Lorenz pointed, you're comparing the Web of Data to a Web of Documents. On 4 June 2017 at 23:51, tina sani <tinamadri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings > > I want to ask how Semantic Web provides meaning to our data? How it differs > from the current web. > I will appreciate if some one provide with a simple examples: If we write > an Ontology and develop Semantic Web application, how it differs from a > simple Java application (without Semantic Web) and a traditional database > system? > -- The information in this email and attachments is privileged and confidential and may not be disclosed without the express permission of the sender. This information is intended only for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you have received this communication in error, your review, dissemination, or copying of this information is prohibited. Please reply to alert me of the error and then delete this email. Thank you.