[microsound] The Semantic Web

[Björn Eriksson <nowerik@xxxxxxxxx>]

The MySpace thread made me interested in the technical side of the so called Semantic Web. Here below is some pointers to pages describing what it is all about in technical terms and then some further bloggin, articles, interviews and more.

I did not know anything about the Semantic Web before this MySpace thread so you have to bare with me that I did this extensive list of links to different places. It got so exciting. You could as always just delete or ignore. For me anyway this is very interesting reading and I don't know why I have not stumbled over this information before.

The Semantic Web (Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web inventor " "The XML code, the basis of today's www, is about document structure, while the semantic web is about real things."
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39159122,00.htm

RDF ( Resource Description Framework is a framework for describing and interchanging metadata.) 
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html

SPARQL (which is the query language for RDF)
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/16/introducing-sparql-querying-semantic-web-tutorial.html

and some articles commenting these new things happening:

"SPARQL Will Make the Web Shine", by Jim Rapoza
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1956961,00.asp

"Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch" Blog entry on this article from The Independent
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/10/bloggers-to-msm-outta-myspace/

Another blog entry on the New Scientist article posted yesterday. Especially interesting to read all comments.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/nsa_combing_thr.html

Semantic Web Road Map, by Tim Berners-Lee (this was written in 1998!!)
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html

Semantic Web Revisited, by Nigel Shadbolt and Wendy Hall and Tim Berners-Lee (june, 2006)
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12614/01/Semantic_Web_Revisted.pdf