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The Semantic Web Fascinates me and I hope you will find it interesting.

The World Wide Web was the first step in the direc­tion of con­nect­ing humans, com­put­ers, and doc­u­ments to one another. The World Wide Web has grown a lot since its incep­tion, and it’s taken off in far greater suc­cess than any­one could have imag­ined or dreamed. But with this increase in data and infor­ma­tion, and the peo­ple using it to enrich their lives, there is a dra­matic need for a more intel­li­gent web that can help peo­ple find the infor­ma­tion they are look­ing for in the big mass of infor­ma­tion that is out there. Google came along and made it eas­ier for peo­ple to find infor­ma­tion, but key­word extrac­tion and key­word search­ing can only go so far.

The Semantic Web is the next step in the evo­lu­tion of the web. The Semantic Web was a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the inven­tor of the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web makes it eas­ier for machines to under­stand what the doc­u­ments are talk­ing about. Contrary to pop­u­lar opin­ion, there is no AI in Google. There is no fully-developed AI that can tell what a doc­u­ment is talk­ing about like a human can. Machines can under­stand what doc­u­ments are talk­ing about more clearly with Semantics; seman­tics entail meta-data that is inserted into the doc­u­ment that helps the machine under­stand what the doc­u­ment is about. Semantics go beyond the key­words on the page.

The W3C is a short­hand acronym for the World Wide Web Consortium. The W3C is an inter­na­tional stan­dards orga­ni­za­tion for the World Wide Web. The W3C cre­ated a data for­mat so that there would be a com­mon frame­work to share data across appli­ca­tions, orga­ni­za­tions, com­mu­ni­ties, web­sites, and enter­prises. The data for­mat is called Resource Description Framework, or RDF as an acronym. What it means to share data across appli­ca­tions is that appli­ca­tions usu­ally keep infor­ma­tion to them­selves, and they don’t inter­act with one another so it is hard to cre­ate mean­ing for dif­fer­ent types of related data, for instance. Applications used to be designed to do just one thing, or han­dle one type of media, but the RDF idea makes it easy for appli­ca­tions to share data and help give con­text to con­tent instead of hav­ing con­tent trapped in appli­ca­tions. This new data for­mat enables new vocab­u­lar­ies to be cre­ated that give mean­ing to data in ways that were never avail­able before.

RDFa stands for Resource Description Framework — in attrib­utes. RDFa enables attribute-level exten­sions to be added to XHTML for embed­ding rich meta­data within web doc­u­ments. The meta­data can then be car­ried in an XML lan­guage. Finding, shar­ing, and com­bin­ing infor­ma­tion is easy with open linked data. One of the cruxes of this new tech­nol­ogy is open linked data.

An RDF triple store is a data­base built for the spe­cial stor­ing of RDF-rich meta­data. An RDF triple store can store bil­lions of triples.

If all of this infor­ma­tion seems con­fus­ing to you, you’re not alone. There are only a select num­ber of com­pa­nies that can effec­tively mar­ket your com­pany with the seman­tic ideals out­lined here. One of the pre­mier com­pa­nies for get­ting your busi­ness hooked into it so that it can be posi­tioned primely for where the Internet is going, is Future Wave Designs. Future Wave Designs spe­cial­izes in get­ting com­pa­nies hooked into it so that you won’t miss the boat and can get ahead of your com­peti­tors in the process. It’s some­thing that every com­pany should take advan­tage of.

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• Connecting the Dots: A Semantic Web Primer (girlinthearchive.wordpress.com)
• Tutorial 4: Introducing RDFS & OWL (linkeddatatools.com)