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Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation
CexpTretical writes "This Technology Review article about Web 2.x problems fails to mention the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to fulfilling the dreams of the Semantic Web — i.e., assumptions about the validity of metadata or tagging schemes. We can add all of the metadata and/or tags we want to web resources but that does not mean that the 'data about the data' honestly or accurately describe the resource or are 'about the data' at all. This is why Google does not place much importance on the metadata already contained in HTML document headers for search ranking, because it cannot be trusted. And to validate it would require more effort than to search and index that data from scratch. Ensuring or verifying the validity of metadata would be a task equal to that of initially creating it, but would have to be repeated on an ongoing basis. Hence all of the talk about 'trusted networks,' which then require trusting the gatekeepers of those networks. Talk about 'semantics.'" Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation offer one example of getting useful metadata in a non-trusted environment.
That's because there have never been any dupes. Ever.
Please move along folks, there's nothing to see here.
Slashdot's very own Hal Porter is an expert in the field of the Semantic Web and metadata classification and organization. Those of us in the UK who have followed his work know full well that he's soon going to be producing some excellent research. For years he's been telling us that the Semantic Web will take off and revolutionize the way we consider our data. I think he may be right, but I'm still thinking it'll take some time yet for most computer scientists, let alone average users, to see that he's correct.
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I have freaks! I did something right...
A tag isn't useful if it works for every article...
I have no idea why your message is rated as insightful
Now do you get it?
Completely incorrect! Web 2.0 will:
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* Cure Cancer
* Solve World Hunger
* End All War
* Show Us the One True God
* Eliminate Spam
* Turn Janet Reno Into a Beautiful Woman
* Help Pandas Mate
* Prevent Dupe Articles on
As you can see, Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword - it is a miracle!
Love sees no species.
This gorilla was last seen apparently emitting methane gas. Who knows where it will be seen next? In an electronic voting machine or a DRM format war perhaps?
... oh, there it's done.
Whether emitting gas or validating meta-information, this gorilla has maintained his importance and kept his mass steadily high. Are there larger gorillas? And if there were, would it matter?
Some thoughts to ponder while the pr0n is loading
Haven't you heard that Web 3.0 is being released soon?
There is no force in this universe or any other universe which can prevent dupes on /.
Smuggle a backpack nuke into the server room?
The ~real~ Greatest Task of Web 2.x is to establish one good browser as the standard so CSS and ECMA can become highly productive instead of being such a horrific waste of development time.
.NET as the Orcs. Mono as King Theoden. Ballboy Chairkovsky as Saruman. Darl McNovell as Gollum. Darl McNovell's lawyers as more Orcs.
This is the war that desktop-bound Redmond cannot afford to lose. One browser to rule them all, the men of Middle Cubicle, the Dvorves of Dvorak, the Geeks of Ajax, the Elvish and the rhinestone-laden Elvish Impersonators. Starring...
The rest of this roman à clef I leave to you, my fellow Slash Hobbits.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
I think the tags are great; they let me get my whole article's worth of Slashdot groupthink in just a few seconds of skimming.
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For instance: "IT: Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy" is tagged "troll, fud, vista, notfud, microsoft". I mean -- that's it! That's the whole discussion right there. Point, spastic head-nodding, counterpoint, rehash of the original article. Thank you sir, may I have another.
I'm hopeful that on some future "Slashdot Mobile," they'll remove everything but the titles and tags, and display it as a feed. Maybe after that, they'll even get rid of the titles, so you can just see a constant stream of tags.
Forget a boot stamping on the face of humanity; that's the future for you: "microsoft fud notfud troll itsatrap google dupe evil internet hardware nvidia slashvertisement pigpile dupe sun esr fud ubuntu dupe microsoft dupe
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