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.
The social marketing "product" is not necessarily a physical offering. A continuum of products exists, ranging from tangible, physical products (e.g., condoms), to services (e.g., medical exams), practices (e.g., breastfeeding, ORT or eating a heart-healt
What social marketing is not: - Viral marketing - Word of mouth marketing - Dating or matchmaking services - Public service announcements - Focus groups - Cause marketing (companies adopting a cause to improve their image and get more sales) What
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...
In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, li
Semantics (Greek semantikos, giving signs, significant, symptomatic, from sema, sign) refers to the aspects of meaning that are expressed in a language, code, or other form of representation. Semantics is contrasted with two other aspects of meaningful ex
A markup language combines text and extra information about the text. The extra information, for example about the text's structure or presentation, is expressed using markup, which is intermingled with the primary text. The best-known markup language in