yairdan

Interesting thoughts and interesting comments

Hehe. Those guys still live in the 50's. That's their problem.

Ontology-based Information Visualization: Toward Semantic Web Applications. (2005)

Linguists are going crazy. CRAZY!

Earlier this week, Google announced that it was revamping its Internet search engine. Google promised that when people search on its site, they should start getting a wider range of results, including more links to videos, images, news, maps and books.

Among the changes, according to a report issued by the equity research firm Bear, Stearns & Co., is additional capability in semantic reasoning about the material the site indexes. The company has applied for a number of patents around a technology it calls the Programmable Search Engine, which will look for metadata posted on Web sites that defines the material on those sites.

Enter Microformats, which offer the promise of helping Web content owners enable users to connect the disparate dots that connect content in a semantic way. To be more precise and borrowing from the official Microformats.org definition, "Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in Web pages."

Why are there so few Web pages in XML or applications that handle them? Will the SOAP/Schema/XSLT/RDF syndicate succeed in transporting us safely across the ocean of information?