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Topic 2) Semantic Web

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Semantic Web Doc N00103624. Jimmy Wales on the Semantic Web. C Semantic Web Activity Homepage. The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar? Why not? The Semantic Web is about two things. See also the activity news for an account of recent events, publications, etc. The following groups are part of the Semantic Web Activity. Active Groups Semantic Web Coordination Group The Semantic Web Coordination Group is tasked to provide a forum for managing the interrelationships and interdependencies among groups focusing on standards and technologies that relate to this goals of the Semantic Web Activity.

RDFa Working Group RDF Working Group The mission of the RDF Working Group, is to update the 2004 version of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Recommendation. Linked Data Platform Working Group. The Next Battle Ground for the Titans of Tech | Innovation Insights. Image: brionv/Flickr A new battle among the tech titans has begun. What are Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and a handful of others fighting over, using vast amounts of money, hardware and top talent as weapons? This battle is over.

Who will solve the scalability and performance issues of semantic computing, the data model for Web 3.0 — its arrival has been predicted annually for years but, finally, it’s on the verge. Put another way, which titan will pull off this victory feat: transforming the all-knowing “Star Trek” computer—which could find the answer to any question in the universe at warp speed — from television fantasy to everyday reality. To win this galactic battle for dominance of Web 3.0, the victorious titan must find a way to move the entire tech world off of relational databases — which have been the foundation of computing since the 1970s — and onto graph databases, the key to semantic computing.

Data integration. This is exactly what users want and need. The world of art on the semantic web.