a system being developed in which the World Wide Web is used to connect data (= information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer) rather than documents

Academics are trying to build what some call the Semantic Web. 学术界正试图建立一些人所说的语义网。

Semantic web technology lets everyone link up databases so their customers and partners can integrate the information. 语义网技术让每个人都可以连接数据库，这样他们的客户和合作伙伴就可以整合这些信息。