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WonderWeb : Home: "We are on the brink of a new generation of World Wide Web (WWW) which, in his recent book Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee calls the Semantic Web. Unlike the existing WWW, where data is primarily intended for human consumption, the Semantic Web will provide data that is also machine processable. This will enable a wide range of intelligent services such as information brokers, search agents, information filters etc., a process that Berners-Lee describes as 'Bringing the Web to its full potential'. The importance of research in this area is indicated by the recently announced DAML initiative in the USA, under whose aegis projects aimed at developing the Semantic Web will receive DARPA funding totalling $70 million. "