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Machines, with their rigid information processing capabilities, need everything spelled out for them. To be able to do something useful with this title and byline, a machine would need to be able to parse it correctly. It would need to know that the numbe
"Many people have told me this week that they think 'Web 2.0' has not been very impressive so far and that they really hope for a next-generation of the Web with some more significant innovation under the hood -- regardless of what it's called. A lot of p
This post is part contribution to the general Web 3.0 / Data-Web / Semantic Web discourse, and part experiment / demonstration of the Data Web. I came across a pretty deep comments trail about the aforementioned items on Fred Wilson's blog (aptly title
Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments. SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets. SIMILE is a joint p
Clay also mentions that the Semantic Web has two goals: to get people to use meta-data and the other is to build a global ontology that pulls all this data together. He applauds the first while stating that the second is …audacious but doomed.
The semantic web data model is very directly connected with the model of relational databases. The Semantic Web is not designed just as a new data model - it is specifically appropriate to the linking of data of many different models. One of the great thi
The Semantic Web is a web of data, in some ways like a global database. When looking at a possible formulation of a universal Web of semantic assertions, the principle of minimalist design requires that it be based on a common model of great generality.
Tim Berners-Lee, who conceived the Semantic Web and has championed the development of the standards and supporting materials (primers, test cases, references and overviews) that will make it possible, has found it necessary to proselytize on behalf of the
SemWeb (SW) operates on the principle of shared data. When you define what a particular type of data is, you can link it to other bits of data and say "that's the same"...for example, "zip" in my SW system is the same as "zip" in my friends. Although it g
There has been a lot of hype about the Semantic Web, and this has not been a good thing. Spurious claims about what the Semantic Web might and might not be able to do have been choking public understanding of it, and adding to the confusion that many peop