The Future of RDF

Once the web has been sufficiently "populated" with rich metadata, what can we expect? First, searching on the web will become easier as search engines have more information available, and thus searching can be more focused. Doors will also be opened for automated software agents to roam the web, looking for information for us or transacting business on our behalf. The web of today, the vast unstructured mass of information, may in the future be transformed into something more manageable - and thus something more useful.

In the future non-PC devices could also benefit, such as set-top electronic program guides defined in RDF.

The "next-generation" webpage could have XML and RDF used for data. JavaScript and XSL then displays it with HTML semantics using the Document Object Model (DOM).