GUSSE plans to use the semantic web technologies being developed by the W3C to improve how GUSSE resources and other Internet resources are described and organized.
The semantic web will be used to make it easier to find information and to discover relationships between different ideas and solutions. Sustainability requires multi-disciplinary approaches and the semantic web is designed to help describe and organize multi-disciplinary solutions that cross conventional boundaries.
GUSSE will use semantic technologies in its social search, federated search, and social bookmarking solutions to describe and share vocabularies and taxonomies.
The EKOSS project at the University of Tokyo in Japan is another example of the application of semantic.