Those looking for evidence of progress on the Semantic Web do not have to look far. Several major projects and companies are embracing the vision and technology stack like never before.
by Brian Sletten
August 27, 2008
here is no question that the web is an unprecedented success. It is the single most adventurous and useful platform for information exchange ever conceived and built. The architectural choices that went into its design have lent it scalability, flexibility, and the ability to grow into new business models, application-level technologies, and varied uses.
Currently, the web is designed for use by people; and not by software. Visitors to a site such as Amazon—that
provides book and movie ratings, information about available used copies, related products, and so forth—can
easily parse the content visually. It is much more difficult for software to act on a visitor's behalf, because the
information is tied up in the presentation structure. It is possible to write software that
scrapes these kinds of pages, but when Amazon's designers change the look or
style of the pages, the
scrapers are likely to break.
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here is no question that the web is an unprecedented success. It is the single most adventurous and useful platform for information exchange ever conceived and built. The architectural choices that went into its design have lent it scalability, flexibility, and the ability to grow into new business models, application-level technologies, and varied uses.
