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February 19, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Crackpot tech: Semantic Web
Originally designed for document distribution, the Web has yet to realize its full potential for distributing data. XML has done its part. Yet every XML document requires an XML Schema — and relating them isn't easy. Until a viable means for surfacing and linking data is established and adopted, humans will remain the Web's core categorizing agents.
Enter the Semantic Web, an effort spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1999 to extend the Web to enable machines to take this mantle. At the outset, the idea — to transform the Web into something machines can readily analyze — seemed hopelessly academic. Yet with significant public data sets surfacing in Semantic Web form, the once crazy notion now stands to revolutionize how enterprise IT accesses and disseminates data via the Web.
RDF (Resource Description Framework) — the Semantic Web’s standard format for data interchange — extends the URI linking structure of the Web beyond naming the two ends of a link, allowing relationships among all manner of resources to be delineated. But the key to the Semantic Web — and where most people’s eyes glaze over — is its use of ontologies. If specialized communities can successfully create ontologies for classifying data within their domains of expertise, the Semantic Web can knit together these ontologies, which are written using RDF Schemas, SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), and OWL (Web Ontology Language), thereby facilitating machine-based discovery and distribution of data.
Buy-in is essential to the success of the Semantic Web. And if it continues to show promise, that buy-in seems likely.
-- Martin Heller
How do you see the Semantic Web affecting the enterprise?
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You can fool yourself into a a less than blissful ignorance to think that amfM HyperRadioProActivity is a harebrained Semantic Web dDevelopment whenever ITs Viral Signature is spreading as a Heavy METAI VXXXXine XSSing into every Operating System. An AID for those in Undereducated Ignorance of much Wwwider Worlds who Hope in Vain and suffer ITs Fools badly.
You will fail to convince yourself that IT is not a QuITe Alien IT Led New World Order Program in anything less than a Total Information Awareness Control Environment for ITs Controllers.
Necessarily and Naturally, in that very Real Virtualised Environment, all Hardware/Software/Applications will migrate to Benefit from their Inclusion in the Model, thus Creating an ever more Responsible Model, so as not to feel excluded from and not be perceived as being resistant to the notion that we have Artificial Intelligence capable of Running Global Order Systems.....AQur in Qum
And a lot more than just a Nobel Submission in Magical Mystery Turing Machines. This is All about Paradigm Change ....and none of IT is Bad so All of IT is Good.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=11804
Your turn: The next big thing? From the far-fetched to the practical, we highlighted 12 technologies that have a history of riding the thin edge between harebrained and brilliant. Yet each has the potential to significantly shake up some aspect of the enterprise down the line.
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