• Nikita Malik
• Sanjay Kumar Malik

In the present times, information search on the web is quite significant in our daily lives. The vast information on the huge and decentralized web may be present in structured, semi-structured or unstructured form, due to which the present web 2.0 suffers with certain limitations. During web searches, a lot of irrelevant information also gets displayed to the user which makes the information search unpleasant. This demands the need of an efficient information search on the web. For this, a smart and intelligent web is needed which can understand what the user needs. Semantic web is a dream and an effort which may provide a solution towards this. It is the future web 3.0 , envisioned by Sir Tim Berners Lee, whose objective is to extend the current web 2.0 such that a well-defined meaning and structure is provided to the existing information on the web, leading to a better cooperation of humans with machines and web giving a web with semantics embedded. This paper includes how semantic web may act as the future smart web of the next generation including the various critical aspects briefly. In this paper, first, origin and growth of web has been presented along with various web versions and contributions of Berners-Lee, the father of web; second, the vision, goal, capabilities, life cycle of semantic web data and processes, popular fallacies, significant milestones and applications etc. are presented; third, the foundation architecture for semantic web with its basic technologies and few significant tools have been explored, discussed, compared in tabular form and revisited, followed by the future scope in this direction.

Semantic Web, Ontology, RDF, SPARQL, Linked Data, Smart Web, Web 3.0

"Semantic Web as the Next Generation Smart Web", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.580-594, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806326.pdf

"Semantic Web as the Next Generation Smart Web", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp580-594, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806326.pdf