ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web (WWW) is envisioned as a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed using the Internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web). With the emer gence of organizations that provide ecommerce such as Amazon and social network applications such as Facebook and Twitter on the WWW, the volume of data generated by them daily is mas sive (Axon, 2010). It was estimated that the amount of data that would be generated by individu als in the year 2009 would be more than that generated in the entire history of mankind through 2008 (Weigend, 2009). The large amount of data generated by one organization could be valuable to other organizations or researchers if it can be correlated with the data that they have. This is especially true for various governmental intelligence organizations. This has led to another trend of forming partnerships between business organizations and universities for research collabora tions (Nokia Research Center-Open Innovation, https://networks.nokia.com/innovation/futureworks /openinnovationchallenge) and between business organizations for data sharing to create better applications (Salesforce, 2008).
