RDF-Data is the Next Intel Inside…

…is the ultimative design pattern for the Semantic Web. In search for high quality data W3C provides a platform called “Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web“. Some basic datasets like geographic or encyclopedic information are already available. The more meshups from that datasets people will build the more data will be available, and so on…

Around two years ago virtually NO data for the semantic web was available, therefore no applications…

The RDF-Web has just started…

Semantic Search for the WWW2007

When I tried to figure out which tendencies, hot topics and trends at the upcoming WWW2007 will be discussed, I first looked up the official website of the conference. I thought to myself – why isn´t there a semantic search implemented for the WWW2007? But the weblog revealed: There is one!

After doing some research with this really well implemented tool, I´m really impressed: Not only by the possibilities the search engine offers ( also searching the archive is there), but also by the relative importance the semantic web has gotten by 2007.

Meaning-based search engine

The recently published Top 100 Alternative Search Engines are mainly covering bad copies of Google. The reason is, that (1) no semantics/meaning of the content is being extracted by most of the “alternatives” and (2) they don´t focus on special domains. Therefore Google won´t be topped in the next few years… But, if you take a look at Cognition Search you will find a really interesting new way to search for information (or is it at this stage even knowledge?): First you can select a special domain, you want to search in, second you can select resources and then a really helpful way to formulate your search phrase will amaze you…

Social Semantic Web OR Semantic Social Web

Just the flipside of the same coin: But – I rather focus on the Social Web, cause the web is about connecting people, nothing else. And the Semantic part “only” helps to make communication and connections more efficient and better. So: I prefer to talk about the semantic social web… Nevertheless, the Social Web (aka Web 2.0) is “only” vehicle, making on the surface everything better… but not solving the problem at all.

Whilst helping to connect even more people, producing even more content, Web 2.0 offers no tools except social tagging for organizing all the “new” knowledge. So, let´s think about semantic technologies, how they can help us to make an even better Web 2.0, okay?