World-wise Semantic Web

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Richard Waters writes an excellent article on world-wise web, also known as Semantic web, proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who had also invented the present web. The article talks about the various development around the semantic web and the companies who are contributing towards buildling it up.

From Wikiepdia - Tim Berners-Lee originally expressed the vision of the semantic web as follows:

“ I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.

From the article:

Imagine, for instance, being able to ask a computer, “Where should I go on holiday?” and receiving an answer that is as suitable as anything you could have come up with yourself. That level of computer-generated reasoning is on the horizon, says Nova Spivack, one of the entrepreneurs involved. It may still take 15 years or more to be fully realised, but between now and then lies a series of breakthroughs that will revolutionise the way we draw information from the web, he adds. This technology draws its inspiration, and some of its techniques, from a field that has provided more than its fair share of disappointments over the years: artificial intelligence (AI). Based on a collection of technologies that includes natural language processing, image recognition and expert systems (programs that try to emulate the skills of experts), AI is a 50-year-old dream that was meant to lead to intelligent machines.

Paul Miller had a discussion on semantic web with the man himself and puts across couple of insights on his blog

How the Semantic Web will benefit the user ? : Michael Marshall discusses what will be the impact on search marketing . Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks and inventor of the term Web 3.0, gives a micro-interview to Tassilo Pellegrini on the logic of versioning the internet, popularizing the Semantic Web and the secrets of the Radar Networks Laboratories.

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