Comments on: The Semantic Web http://www.shadreynolds.com/2004/12/22/the-semantic-web/ Photos, Links, Videos & Programming Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anonymous http://www.shadreynolds.com/2004/12/22/the-semantic-web/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Anonymous Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:09:00 +0000 http://shadreynolds.dreamhosters.com/?p=446#comment-200 The semantic web is quite likely to be the next great leap in information organization. The world wide web has been transformative for those fortunate enough to have access to it, and the semantic web is likely to have even more impact on our daily lives. The most interesting project dealing with the semantic web that I'm aware of is Haystack, a personal information organization platform under development at MIT: http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/index.html This piece of software is truly amazing. The interaction metaphors are, by and large, really terrible right now, but the power exposed is pretty incredible. You can do things like automatically define tautologies and tuples for the metadata in your music collection (the artist for this song is person X, and the album title is Y), and then tie that data together with the other data you've collected, like email. This allows you to do things like ask Haystack to "find me all of the songs and album titles on my computer that were performed by one of my friends." Very, very cool. The semantic web is also likely to greatly enhance general web search capabilities. - a The semantic web is quite likely to be the next great leap in information organization. The world wide web has been transformative for those fortunate enough to have access to it, and the semantic web is likely to have even more impact on our daily lives.

The most interesting project dealing with the semantic web that I’m aware of is Haystack, a personal information organization platform under development at MIT:

http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/index.html

This piece of software is truly amazing. The interaction metaphors are, by and large, really terrible right now, but the power exposed is pretty incredible. You can do things like automatically define tautologies and tuples for the metadata in your music collection (the artist for this song is person X, and the album title is Y), and then tie that data together with the other data you’ve collected, like email. This allows you to do things like ask Haystack to “find me all of the songs and album titles on my computer that were performed by one of my friends.”

Very, very cool.

The semantic web is also likely to greatly enhance general web search capabilities.

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