Alrighty, this post addresses the confusion I see about “semantics” and “the semantic web”. It’s not a complete misunderstanding, but rather an assumption that the semantic web = semantics. This isn’t quite right. I want to illustrate the difference by first provi[...]
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July 6th, 2009 - 1:38 pm § in Semantic web
Fun SPARQLy RDF Search
“SPARQL” is pronounced “Sparkle” and stands for SPARQL “Protocol and RDF Query Language”. You didn’t really think there’d be something like RDF and not a query method for it did you? SPARQL is a query language and a protocol for accessing RDF. The RDF [...]
May 15th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Semantic web
Google semantic web
This is indeed an “I told you so” post. If you don’t recognise the logo above, then this is aimed at you Google have announced (12 May) that they are going to be using “Rich snippets”: “Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search res[...]
February 4th, 2009 - 3:55 pm § in Semantic web
How to build a semantic web compliant website
I’ve been asked by a lot of people how to build a website that is semantic web compliant. The general impression is that it is a lot of hard work and that it’s pretty useless right now. Obviously I disagree – It’s not that hard, it involves learning a few new things, whic[...]
December 1st, 2008 - 11:38 pm § in Semantic web
Google tech talk on the semantic web
This is by Professor Abraham Bernstein. It’s very interesting, it’s all about what the semantic web is in brief, but mostly about the various techniques used such as SPARQL, Querix, Ginseng, OWL DL…these are however rubbish for humans mostly. He explores how to make the semanti[...]
