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Web Redesigned With Hindsight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-give-me-two-way-links dept.

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."

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  1. Redesign the web? by 3Suns · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. 20/20 hindsight by oskillator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if he's going to spell REFERRER correctly this time.

  3. The future of the web... by pHDNgell · · Score: 4, Funny

    pages full of mySQL errors. *sigh* I need to find something else to do.

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  4. Re:Too complicated to succeed by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny



    What are you, anti-Semantic?

    Racist.

  5. Re:Web Ontology Language? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Re:All those fancy acronyms.. by telbij · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone care to shed some light (or links) onto what RDF and OWL actually do?

    Anything you want! It's inspired by zombo.com

  7. Re:Too complicated to succeed by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny



    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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