Bringing Semantic Web to real life?

Frédéric — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:24:00 +0200

Thanks to the cool Apps with Web 2.0 features that promote people's thinkings, I end up to believe there is a road to Semantic Web aka Web 3.0. The potential applicability of the Semantic Web is very broad.

So, what 's the Semantic Web? The Wikipedia defines the Semantic Web as a project that intends to create a universal medium for information sharing by transforming documents with computer-processable meaning on the Web. The core idea is to create the meta data describing the data, which will enable computers to process the meaning of things. Once computers are equipped with semantics, they will be capable of solving complex semantical optimization problems. Meaning, computers help us to go through information to avoid time-consuming tasks.

Semantic Web is Personalized Web. So far people use mediation tools, for example, annotations to define information into flexible and open information, persistent personal preferences, even relevant data as filters. That's the key, actually. Others tools are Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Plus, a new challenge is to give for all of us end-user apps which integrate, combine and deduce information neede to assist people in performing tasks.

Could Semantic Web give the Power to the People? Not quite but one day...

Christophe

Next week: Semantic Web: which tools for the power?

Further Information:

- - The Semantic Web by Time Berners-Lee.

- - Jena.

- - Joseki.

DNA MANIA - Web 2.0

Bringing Semantic Web to real life?