The Semantic Web is expected to provide more benefits to software engineering. Over the past five years there have been a number of attempts to bring together languages and tools, such as the UML, developed for Software Engineering with Semantic Web langu
"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
Very cool Semantic Web use case Demo via Piggy Bank's sever component called "Semantic Bank". These complimentary projects are part of the MIT SMILE project. As you can see Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web are mutually inclusive paradigms as reemphasized
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.
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
Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the Internet. OWL is a vocabulary extension of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language (see also D
Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A