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posted by Editor
on Wednesday November 01, @06:18PM
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As a potential successor to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web benefits from worthy design goals and distinguished credentials due to its sponsorship by the father of the original Web, Tim Berners-Lee. But standards are only as useful as the applications that are built on them, and the mainstream adoption of the Semantic Web has been limited by the lack of compelling applications that fully exploit its capabilities. Matt Robson writes that social networking tools based on the Semantic Web could deliver such breakthrough applications: "With social profiles, every profile contains the same kind of information. Unlike the unstructured or semi-structured web, social profiles are highly structured, both in terms of representing what the components of the profile actually refer to, and also representing explicit friendship and group belonging relationships. In a sense, this isn't just symbolic guesswork. Rather, there are real object representations, real fields with meta-data, and real relationships between objects, and other sets of objects. Further, the benefits of the Semantic Web are more readily achieved with social networking, since users participating in social networks generally take on the burden of "structuring themselves", whereas when people search the web with current tools, they usually aren't structuring the results, or tagging components". Some pointers to resources on social networks and the Semantic Web are here.
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