Mike Wesch is a digital ethnographer. An academic who combines the study of Media Ecology with Cultural Anthropology. He has a wonderful talent for explaining the semantic web and you can easily become the smartest person in the room by watching it now.
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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names” (Chinese Proverb)
Part 2 of a 3 part series.
If the semantic web is the web that talks to itself, then it’s important that everyone speak a common language, a language of “standards.” Under development by volunteer groups around the world these standards” describe the name and translation of data. They include:
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
Unless you are a hardcore web-head read more…
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“Semantic web” is a term you hear more and more about these days. But what does it mean? Why should you care? And what has it done for you lately? The official definition is:
“The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.”
My plain-English definition would be read more…