Currently, web content is based largely on documents written in HTML, a hypertext markup language coding a body of text that's interspersed with other media (like images, or forms). HTML has limited ability to classify sections of text on a web page so th
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
Freebase, having suctioned up some freely available web databases (e.g., Wikipedia, Musicbrainz), structures the data by assigning "types" to entities, which automatically associates additional data that Freebase has defined as related to these "types." T