I’ve read a few articles through blogs lately regarding Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Ross Bates, Paul Miller, Ian Davis, and Semantics Incorporated have all explored the ideas of Linked Data and Web 3.0/Semantic Web. This got me thinking a bit about the Semantic web, and the direction of the efforts to reform web data to a more ‘object-oriented’ model. There are a number of resources out there that cover it beyond the items I linked. In the end, it boils down to a way of structuring data on the web in a way that allows machines to understand context and thus manipulate data in the same way that humans do, through reasoning. While this is a noble effort, and promises to restructure the way the web operates, I have to wonder if the entire approach isn’t slightly backwards.
July 27th, 2009 | Blogosphere, Semantic Web, Social Media, Web 3.0 | 4 comments