The Semantic Web

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A Guide to Semantic Technologies

The Semantic Web means many things to different people, because there are a lot of pieces to it. To some, the Semantic Web is the web of data, where information is represented in RDF and OWL. Some people replace RDF with Microformats.
Whether we like it (pun intended) or not, we have to understand what this move means. It impacts users, publishers, competitors and, of course, Facebook itself. In this post, we summarize what Facebook announced and ponder the impact this will have on everyone. Login with Faces & Facepile : The simpler publisher plugins enhance Facebook Connect.

Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors

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This week we've been exploring the emergence of the Semantic Web among companies like Best Buy and Google . It's all thanks to RDFa , code that is inserted into the HTML of web pages to add extra meaning. The increasing usage of RDFa was one of the main themes at the recent Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco. There is perhaps no better example than Facebook 's use of RDFa. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_the_semantic_web.php

Facebook & The Semantic Web

By using XML, OWL information can easily be exchanged between different types of computers using different types of operating system and application languages. A W3C Recommendation is understood by the industry and the web community as a web standard. A W3C Recommendation is a stable specification developed by a W3C Working Group and reviewed by the W3C Membership.

Introduction to OWL

http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_owl.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_intro.asp

Introduction to RDF

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard for describing Web resources, such as the title, author, modification date, content, and copyright information of a Web page. By using XML, RDF information can easily be exchanged between different types of computers using different types of operating systems and application languages.