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Web Redesigned With Hindsight
Randy Sparks writes "Tim Berners-Lee has been speaking about his vision for the Web. He proposed the Semantic Web six years ago and it's taken that long for the W3C to ratify his plans for Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL). Effective the Semantic Web is the Web as we know it put into database form and with added metadata. You can read more about it over on MacWorld and see a Semantic Web proof-of-concept at the Web Archive."
In hindsight, it would have been better to design the web with major help from the porn industry, since that is mostly what it is used for anyway.
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You can't just "redesign the web" !!
Just who the hell does this "Tim Berners-Lee" guy think he is, anyway!?
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I wonder if he's going to spell REFERRER correctly this time.
In related news, Verisign was quoted as saying, "Move along now. Nothing to see here..."
<insert witty linux comment here>
that slashdotters would prefer that each and every website be redisgned. Further, they would like to espouse their desire to have the entire WEB be redisigned (starting with Slashdot) with what many /.'ers feel is the ultimate Web Developer Tool
pages full of mySQL errors. *sigh* I need to find something else to do.
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What are you, anti-Semantic?
Racist.
Shouldn't that be WOL, and not OWL?
It was supposed to be called the Advanced Web Ontology Language, but the specs for it went missing.
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The next question would be: Why isn't that website built semantically? Nested tables? bleh.
You've got to be the biggest karma whore I've ever seen on this site.
So? At least he is posting something useful, unlike you and me!
If there's anything worse than worrying about your own karma, it's worrying about someone else's.
Anyone care to shed some light (or links) onto what RDF and OWL actually do?
Anything you want! It's inspired by zombo.com
And don't forget the subset of Ontology that only lets you join if you can prove that you have telekinetic or brain-scan ability.
I'm speaking, of course, of...
(wait for it)
PSI-Ontology.
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...Time Berners-Lee? I thought he got knighted.
He may have, but I wasn't aware he got acquired by Time Warner.
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> The web is popular because it's easy to create web pages.
Not so sure about that. I don't design pages, so I don't care how easy it is. I'm not sure that the sites I actually use daily (bbc, amazon, ebay, slashdot,google) are easy to create. Sure, any muppet can knock up a bit of html, but all the rest of it is probably a bit of work. What put me off the web for a while was all the cheesy `here's my cat and dumpy, toothy girlfriend - oh, and here are some links which don't work and an `under construction` sign`.
Frankly, making it harder to put up a web page is a step forward in my book!
I already saw the box for it
There's a difference. The problem with AI is that computers are stupid, the problem with a semantic web is that people are stupid. The technology for a semantic web exists already.
Why cant someone just invent a new similar, improved web that is separated from the current WWW, with its own specific browser, and implement the various ins, outs and whathaveyous to keep the riffraff from exploiting it in very annoying ways?
We did. Oh, you haven't heard of it? Sorry, um, nevermind I've mispoken.
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