The web has taken off in ways unexpected to those who designed it and technologies are being used in new and exciting ways. For the Semantic Web we have technologies created by researchers and panels such as RDF and OWL designed to help create ontologies and describe information. While these are certainly useful tools for those who need them, how many people truly need such powerful tools? Does the success of ideas such as microformats suggest that perhaps this is the wrong direction and a simpler approach would be better?
Read more »Will the New Web make us Stupid ?
Nicholas Carr, in his new article in The Atlantic asks the question - " Is Google making us Stoopid ?". He says spending too much time on the internet has made it difficult for him to read long passages of prose due to the Internet Style of prose.
Even I have changed the way I think. I do not try to remember certain (not so important) things because I know Google will provide me the answers by just typing it in the search bar.
Is this good for us?
Is Google really making us stupid ?
Will the Semantic web make us even more stupid ?\
Semantic Web as Geocortex
What about neural models for Web 3.0, the Semantic Web as a kind of geocortex where decentralized, independent, and diverse individuals play the role of neurons, aggregating and firing linguistic, subject-oriented action potentials through their many untethered screens, ultimately producing a potentially superhuman collective intelligence a la The Wisdom of Crowds? The neocortex produces the self. Might not a Semantic Web modeled after the neocortex in time produce something like a singular planetary self?
Read more »How is spam to be addressed?
As far as each user is able to build her own Semantic Web site, chances are that information could be presented as a resource for some interests while being pornography, commercial nonsense, and the things we're getting used in W1.0 and W2.0.
Would Viagra be the item returned when I query the Semantic Web for any useful information? I'm afraid spammers are to find their way in Semantic Web as they have in HTML web.
Read more »The Semantic Web relies on URIs while Vinton Cerf warns against this practice. What is your point of view?
Recently I've read Vinton Cerf warning us from (1) Data loss due to software updating and not being able to read "old data" any longer and, (2) using URLs to access data, he says a better and more reliable method should be developed.
I'd like to know your opinion about this issues.
Read more »Can you imagine the future of the world (wide Web) without the Semantic Web? What would such a world (wide Web) look like?
If Tim Berners-Lee et al. had never come up with the Semantic Web idea and none of the technologies (RDF/S, OWL, SPARQL, etc.) would have ever happened what direction, you think, would the Web be heading right now and how bright would be its further future? Is the Semantic Web (from a long term point of view) inevitable?
Read more »How do we make sense of the proliferation of data from the ever growing number of User's social activity feeds?
Social networks like MySpace & Facebook have activity feeds of all the network interactions in a users social graph, coupled with photos from sites like Flickr, videos from sites like YouTube and the morass of data from sites like Twitter....
Aggregating all of this creates so much "noise" that the user is overhwhelmed. Their mailboxes and feed aggregators are currently not able to provide a semantic filter on all of this data....
Read more »Semantic Web a dream?
One reason that the Internet exploded in the late 1990s was that it was possible for a reasonably intelligent person to learn HTML coding or to use Web editors to create new and original websites. What I've read about the Semantic Web is confusing at best to a person who is not a computer programmer. Is the language too technical to ever become common place for amateur website creators to master and use? What is the incentive for them to incorporate Semantics in the structure of their websites?
Read more »Does widespread application of the Semantic Web require that the Web fall back under the control of scientists?
The idea of a truly Semantic Web has been met with criticism from some who say that it is utopian and would require all users to share common, agreed-upon languages. Berners-Lee, Hendler, and others have often countered such criticism by noting the Semantic Web is actually more flexible than the current Web, allowing users to share and exchange languages easily. But some underlying issues might still remain in such an inherently chaotic, but still highly personalized technology.
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How do we create a truly Semantic Web?
In 2001, Tim Berners Lee, Ora Lassila, and James Hendler unveiled their vision of the Semantic Web in an article in Scientific American, writing, “ The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users.” Six years later, we have several languages to implement the Semantic Web, Semantic site likes Twine, and Semantic technology is being embraced by some of the largest corporate players in the field. But there is still a long road to travel.
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