Tim Berners-Lee describes it in his blog post Giant Global Graph (from 2007-11-21):
Three mental moves:
- Internet: "It isn't the cables, it is the computers which are interesting"
- (World Wide) Web: "It isn't the computers, but the documents which are interesting"
- Giant Global Graph: "It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important"
About the term "Giant Global Graph":
We can use the word Graph, now, to distinguish from Web.
I called this graph the Semantic Web, but maybe it should have been Giant Global Graph! Any worse than WWWW? ;-) Not the "Semantic Web" term has been established for a long time, I'm not proposing to change it. But let's think about the graph which it is. (Footnote: "Graph" also happens to be the word the RDF specifications use, but that is by the way. While an XML parser creates a DOM tree, an RDF parser creates an RDF graph in memory.)
