Economist Confused About the Semantic Web?
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Saved by 10 people (-2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-09-19
- Krishnan on 2008-02-08 - Tags semanticweb , semantic , web , collectiveintelligence , oreilly , web2.0 , definition , truenature
- Doppelmutzi on 2007-10-22 - Tags web2.0 , web3.0 , comparison , semanticweb , semantic , oreilly , collectiveintelligence , principles , definition , google
- Lethalox on 2007-10-21 - Tags Web
- Joelbez on 2007-10-01 - Tags ** , .article , [EN] , semantic , web2.0 , for:hannes
- Jeffgiddens on 2007-10-01 - Tags web3.0 , web2.0 , toread , semantic , oreilly
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The Semantic Web (capitalized to refer to the suite of official technologies) is about developing languages, if you will, with which we can encode meaning into documents in such a way that they are more accessible to computers.
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The Semantic Web (capitalized to refer to the suite of official technologies) is about developing languages, if you will, with which we can encode meaning into documents in such a way that they are more accessible to computers.
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By contrast, I've argued that one of the core attributes of "web 2.0" (another ambiguous and widely misused term) is "collective intelligence."
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web 2.0" (another ambiguous and widely misused term) is "collective intelligence." That is, the application is able to draw meaning and utility from data provided by the activity of its users, usually large numbers of users performing a very similar activity.
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at is, the application is able to draw meaning and utility from data provided by the activity of its users, usually large numbers of users performing a very similar activity. So, for example, collaborative filtering applications like Amazon's "people who bought item this also bought" or last.fm's music recommendations, use specialized algorithms to match users with each other on the basis of their purchases or listening habits.
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But for me, the paradigmatic example of Web 2.0 is Google's Pagerank
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What Larry Page realized was that meaning was already being encoded unconsciously by web page creators when they linked one page to another. And that understanding that a link was a vote allowed Google to give better search results than people who, up to that time, were just searching the contents of the various documents on the web.
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And so, it seems to me that Pagerank illustrates the fundamental difference between the approaches of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. The Semantic Web sees meaning as something that needs to be added to documents so that computers can act intelligently about them. Web 2.0 seeks to discover the ways that meaning has already been implicitly encoded by the way people use documents and digital objects, and then to extract that meaning, often by statistical means by studying large aggregates of related documents.
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The Semantic Web sees meaning as something that needs to be added to documents so that computers can act intelligently about them. Web 2.0 seeks to discover the ways that meaning has already been implicitly encoded by the way people use documents and digital objects, and then to extract that meaning, often by statistical means by studying large aggregates of related documents.
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Looking at it this way, you can see that Wesabe is very much a Web 2.0 company.
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Web 2.0 applications often do a half-assed job of tackling the same problem, but because they harness self-interest, they typically gather much more data.
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