This piece speaks about the different parts of the Semantic Web and how they fit together. For a high-level interview, take a look at Sandro Hawke's The Semantic Web (Put Simply). On the other hand, if you're a Web developer who's interested in building S
The Semantic Web has promised a new era of easier data integration. This article introduces core Semantic Web concepts and standards and explains how to expose an LDAP directory as a service that Semantic Web applications can consume using the open source
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
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