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New, Improved *Semantic* Web!

New, Improved *Semantic* Web! by dullhunk.
New Improved Semantic Web: Now with added meaning! More machine processable than before. May be incompatible with existing XML tools. Databases may take up to ten times as much memory and 24 hours to load.

Picture taken from Mark Butlers presentation "Is the semantic web hype?" Hewlett Packard labs presentation at Manchester Metropolitan University. Conceived by Mark Butler and drawn by Rachel Murphy of Rude Girl Designs. Reproduced here with kind permission from Mark Butler.

See also Google and the Semantic, Satanic, Romantic Web. Does anyone, apart from a small (but vocal) gang of fools and fanatics, think it will actually ever work on a realistic scale on the Web? Even if the semantic web vapourware does ever materialise, the idea isn't that novel or interesting, forget "Web 2.0", its more "Databases 2.0". The basic idea is something along the lines of "If we describe things using ontologies, they will be easier to find and integrate". Wowee, what an incredibly ground-breaking risky earth-shattering piece of so-called "Science". Maybe I'm missing something.

The more interesting idea, of artificially intelligent machines that "know what you mean" and perform tasks on your behalf is still a long long way off. See also the Semantic Web Stack 

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/elkabong  Pro User  says:

LOL (zac, from asemantics
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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dullhunk  Pro User  says:

Glad it made you laugh, some people aren't sure wether to laugh or cry at this picture...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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/elkabong  Pro User  says:

No, this is LOL! Thanks for this nice idea. I'll reuse it on some preso (I'll call you for Copyright :-)

Guys, "we" must be real here. This "Semantic Web" might become something cool.... not as as solution for evertything and not what many people believe today.

The risc is we get lost in some AI2.0 (Artificial Intelligence 2.0) and what I believe is cool is the " Web3.0", or Web3.14 as Leo calls it.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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dullhunk  Pro User  says:

This whole Web version x.x has got way out of hand but maybe A.I. 2.0 will work where A.I. 1.0 failed miserably...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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/elkabong  Pro User  says:

LOL. This is why I call this AI 2.0 :-)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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qdot76367  Pro User  says:

So, um, I just got finished building a flickr+twitter artsy type program
(http://www.nonpolynomial.com/archives/2007 /06/fwiktr_v01.php for the full description), and it pulled up your image.

www.30helensagree.com/20dbd6e6-e8fd-4561-a814 -d7da0bae119...

Either web 2.0 has a sense of irony, or there's something sinister going on.

Can't sleep. Tags will eat me.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

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Fawaz Ghali  Pro User  says:

I do believe with the power of users but I can't see what the semantic web offers for this power or even how it will use this power.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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dullhunk  Pro User  says:

Try Burning the semantic web if you don't understand it.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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Dead Air  Pro User  says:

Hi! Your photo matches our theme this week in the Weekly Theme Photography Group! You are cordially invited to post your photo to the group next to the other images that contain this theme.

This Week's Theme is Logic!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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