By Raj Bala

Many people, even technology folks, really don't know what to make of the Semantic Web. Then there are several camps that disagree on the meaning of various Semantic Web terms. Now that the general concept is finally getting some traction, there is even some groupthink going on about moving away from the current moniker. Some people want the moniker to be "Linked Data Web," because that's supposedly a better description of the technologies and components surrounding the Semantic Web. We'll continue to refer to it as most people understand it, and the open source community is pitching in, through the Jena project.