"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
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
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 difference between a typical blog post and a structured entry is that the Structured Blogging content is published in machine-readable format, so that other services can understand it. Indeed it builds on RSS and Atom standards. Download plugins for W
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.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard for describing Web resources, such as the title, author, modification date, content, and copyright information of a Web page. What is RDF? RDF stands for Resource Description Framework RDF is
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard for describing Web resources, such as the title, author, modification date, content, and copyright information of a Web page. What is RDF? RDF stands for Resource Description Framework RDF is
Lexical ambiguity arises when context is insufficient to determine the sense of a single word that has more than one meaning. Syntactic ambiguity arises when a sentence can be parsed in more than one way. Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept
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
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
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards...Semantic markup is valuable because it allows us to build smart tools for consuming information...
Lexical ambiguity arises when context is insufficient to determine the sense of a single word that has more than one meaning. Syntactic ambiguity arises when a sentence can be parsed in more than one way. Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards...Semantic markup is valuable because it allows us to build smart tools for consuming information...
The difference between a typical blog post and a structured entry is that the Structured Blogging content is published in machine-readable format, so that other services can understand it. Indeed it builds on RSS and Atom standards. Download plugins for W
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
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