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The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar?
Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself.
The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.
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Semantic Web+background
Often referred to as web 2.0 and 3.0 as it speaks to the ever-growing interactivity of web applications.
Semantic Web+definitions
The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2] It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. Tim O'Reilly regards Web 2.0 as the way that business embraces the strengths of the web and uses it as a platform. O'Reilly considers that Eric Schmidt's abridged slogan, don't fight the Internet, encompasses the essence of Web 2.0 — building applications and services around the unique features of the Internet, as opposed to expecting the Internet to suit as a platform (effectively "fighting the Internet"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Semantic Web+where to start
Semantic Web+best practices
Free Web Services for Nonprofits - The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices.http://www.grassroots.org/
4 Internet Competencies You Need for a Career in Nonprofit
by Anthony Sicola- 10.13.2009 for www.netwitsthinktank.com
http://www.netwitsthinktank.com/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ifINKZOzFmG&b=4487123&ct=7569565
Trends in Constituent Satisfaction with Nonprofit Websites: Building Membership, Donations and Loyalty through the Web Channel
Published April 2009
By Larry Freed, ForeSee Results
Web 2.0 resources:
- Deloitte & Touche LLP - Canada (2008 study) - Change your world or the world will change you: The future of collaborative government and Web 2.0
- McKinsey & Company - Global Survey - How businesses are using Web 2.0, June 2008
- "Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0", Special issue of First Monday, 13(3), 2008.
- MacManus, Richard. Porter, Joshua. "Web 2.0 for Designers". Digital Web Magazine, May 4, 2005.
- Graham Vickery, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent: "Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking"; OECD, 2007
- Harjit Sandhu, CodersAdvocate: "Web 2.0 simplified, where did it all start"; 2009
Semantic Web+issues
How the Web Trains Your Mind
November 10th, 2009 inyourhead.net
http://inoveryourhead.net/how-the-web-trains-your-mind/
Jonathan Harris
"The Internet is causing mass homogenization of human identity, making us all look the same."
http://number27.org/wb-crisis.html
FCC’s Net neutrality plan gets big boost
October 22nd, 2009
USA Today – “The war of words over “Net neutrality,” the idea (favored by the Obama Administration) that consumers should be able to access any online content anytime they want it, hitched up a few notches this week.” http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/10/fccs-net-neutrality-plan-gets-big-boost.html?csp=34
Semantic Web+lessons learned
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/BT_Strategy/How_companies_are_benefiting_from_Web_20_McKinsey_Global_Survey_Results_2432?gp=1&pagenum=5
Semantic Web+standards in field
HTML 5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The WHATWG started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0[1]. The W3C adopted the draft in May 2007 as its basis for review. The specification was published as a First Public Working Draft at the W3C on January 22, 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
Semantic Web+Attached Documents
Fix your Pix (for Free!)
a Meyer Memorial Trust New Media article about free image editors and better photo presentation on the web dated 11/14/2008
Are You and Your Org Using Firefox Yet?
November 14, 2008 a Meyer Memorial Trust New Media article
What is All This Tweeting About?
11/06/2008 a Meyer Memorial Trust New Media article about a foundation's use of twitter and a list of handy resources on the web
wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
W3C Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Making a Library Catalogue Part of the Semantic Web by Martin Malmsten (PDF): http://www.kb.se/dokument/Libris/artiklar/Project%20report-final.pdf
Semantic Web+other
Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 27, 2009 ReadWriteWeb.com
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php
Oregon gets $2.1 million for broadband
How Semantic is Your Web?
December 16, 2008 (a discussion of the semantic web and blogging tool zemanta)
The semantic web (lately being called web 3.0 among other buzzwords) is the future of our online networking. Boiled down, it's all about context. The new technologies that have been in development to better contextualize or networks and boost our interactivity are really starting to get awesome!
One of my favorite geek blogs, Read Write Web, posted a list of their Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008, so I thought I'd poke around in some of these and call out my favorite new cool toy.
Although Zemanta wasn't one RWW's particular faves, it was so highly rated by users that they felt compelled to include it. This, of course, piqued my interest, so I decided to give this semantic/contextual blogging tool a shot. I tried out the product in both Google's Blogger and in our very old version of Movable Type. In both cases, you actually download the handy little app as a Firefox extension. But, you ask, what does it actually do?
Well, once installed, a little window pops up (see picture at top of this post) and the user is given a scrolling palette of image choices to click on and automagically embed in his/her post. The photos are selected from Wikimedia Commons, flickr and wikipedia as well as other open-source websites to make terms active links.
Ultimately, I was hoping to see a magic button that would let me, say, highlight terms in my blog post, and it would then seek them out on the interwebs and insert the links. As it stands, I spend a bunch of time cruising my post and looking for web addresses to add links in my text manually. Zemanta does not do this for me, as it really focuses on wikipedia links and is still a little lacking in search sophistication. But, it is a very fun tool that takes almost no learning to use, and it is a great step towards awesome things to come!
Do you use contextual web tools? What is your favorite? Would you/do you use Zemanta? Why or why not?
ps- click on the little reblog link at the bottom of the post to see something really cool for cross posting and quoting!
