The Semantic Web is not just a single Web. There won't be one Semantic Web, there will be thousands or even millions of them, each in their own area. They will all be part of one Semantic Web in that they will use the same open-standard languages and thei
The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to
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
For music lovers or musicians, a down-to-earth, practical view of the Semantic Web is dearly needed. Now believe me when I say I have tried to find one, I really have, but in my effort to convince people who work with or in the music industry of the merit
While it's easy for a human to figure out the meaning of a web page ("Mom! They sell pokemons!"), this usually isn't true for software programs. How much more could we benefit from the knowledge freely available online if our computers understood the info
On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the curren
The Semantic Web = a Web with a meaning. "If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database" --Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the We
Discusses three conceptual components of the semantic web project (1. expressing meaning, 2. knowledge representation, and 3. ontologies), with "educated layperson's" technical details on semantic markup, software agents, and machine-readable content serv
High performance requires quality dialogue, openness, and transparency in order to build the trust that leads to credible actions on behalf of communities (organizations, firms, groups, enterprises)...Articles & Links.
What do communities of practice have to do with organizational performance? More and more senior leader in organizations believe, this is a question worth to explore. Here's a contribution to those explorations.
Articles and essays on 'communities of practice,' compiled by DOcommunities.org...Great resource for folks interested in knowledge networks, social design, social web design, social network analysis, smart mobs, collective intelligence...
The Semantic Web is a project to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web.
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among u