As each new social networking site becomes the Next Big Thing, we spend hours recreating our accounts, contact details, and associations with people we know. Brian believes we should support - and create - sites that make users' profile data portable, and in this article he tours some current and evolving tools that make the sharing of information between services a cinch!
• standards and interoperability between platforms • user experience and retention • technological barriers to entry • technological limitations (avatars per sim, etc.) • building community • setting societal standards • creating susta
Ontologies play a prominent role on the Semantic Web. They make possible the widespread publication of machine understandable data, opening myriad opportunities for automated information processing. However, because of the Semantic Web's distributed natur
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
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