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Semantic Web Gathers Substance

Posted by timothy on from the an-as-yet-unidentified-substance dept.

David Hersey writes "ADTMag reports that the semantic web technologies are taking real form in the wake of recent W3C approvals and early pioneering work by vendors such as IBM, Boeing, Adobe and others. These technologies have been developing for several years. When and If the finally take form, they hold the potential of raising the capabilties of internet users and internet technology applications to levels that are today impractical due to the web's document-centric architecture."

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  1. Information architechure by heldlikesound · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IA is a new interest of mine, specifically on the web...

    My favorite sites are:

    boxesandarrows.com
    zeldman.com
    alistapart.com
    http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/iaglossary.htm l
    http://iaslash.org/

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  2. Viability by !3ren · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ultimately though, the question is whether people actually _want_ to enable the ability to reuse and recombine their data.
    Within your own data, tools to enable you to analyse and reuse your data are highly prized, but enabling anyone else to use your valuable data to their own ends benefits (almost) noone. (IMHO)

  3. Re:Godel's Theorem? by Uzziel · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You're not giving us a lot to go on here. How does it violate the Incompleteness Theorem?

    The semantic web is not a procedural system; it's a method of encoding information. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem is about mathematical systems and their ability to describe certain truth values.

    I don't see any immediate connection between the one and the other.