Moving pensions and insurance towards Web 3.0

I've just watched several videos and read a good article on the Semantic Web (also called Linked Data and Web 3.0, in which not just humans but computers can understand content) by Brian Sletten. It would be good for the pensions and insurance industry to play its part in helping the web move towards 3.0 (something that will have even more of an impact than Web 1.0 did in about 1998, and Web 2.0 - the advent of social media which enabled everyone to connect and become a publisher - in about 2008) and I will be writing more about this soon.

Click the image below to go to an interactive map of several existing linked data sets (across a wide range of disciplines, including life sciences, geography, publications, government data).


(Posted by on 14 August 2017).

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