Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Sematic web- a meaningful approach



Whether a person is 9 year old or 60 year olds, all of them can be found on internet these days. Every person is now entangled in this “web”. So why not make it more advantageous for masses. Right now we write some words and our search engine gives us numerous links to choose from. What it’s actually doing – is keyword based search.

The new web is about “meaningful search”. The idea is to make the web smarter, which is software and computer only.

Since the time, The father of the web TIM-BL(Tim berner’s lee) declared his vision to the entire world about “semantic web”. There is been several talks and researches in this area. Several words crop ups in this-“RDF”, “ONTOLOGIES”, “OWL”, “SPAR-QL” and many more.


A very simple thing which everyone asks is, “what is semantic web?”

Data have both “syntax” and “semantics” in it, what current web is doing; it’s focusing primarily on “syntax” not semantics. The web 3.0 will take into consideration its semantic part as well.

Is it web 3.0, which many calls it or its mixture of all those rdf , ontology in one entity.

The most simple and concise definition of it can be-“Its globally linked database”

Database is collection of information in a correct format so as to deliver its meaning correctly. The “linked” is playing what role?

Linked Data is a relatively new way in which data is published. With every passing day, data is increasing, and these data are distributed. It will help in “intelligent” web only when its summed up and machine will be able to analyze them. One of the key component is RDFA(which extends RDF) it  is a way of publishing Linked Data in HTML5 documents , which solves data linking problems.
RDFA works for HTML5 and variety of HTML like languages XML documents, SVG documents, as well as HTML4, XHTML1 and XHTML5 documents.

It is  a very interesting arena, making search engines more capable of human like analysis, using “natural languages” and “AI” in it.

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