This document explains the concepts behind Web 3.0 and the semantic web through the analogy of a stamp collection. It discusses how standards like XML, RDF, OWL, and SWRL can add meaning to data by describing things like stamps, their attributes, and relationships. Microformats and SPARQL allow structured queries across decentralized data. Resource identifiers like URIs and XRIs help machines exchange information between databases. XDI supports data sharing and synchronization according to the standards.