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* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Media Wiki]] (At some [[User:DSchneider|DSchneider]] will make a test with this within this wiki)
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Media Wiki]] (At some [[User:DSchneider|DSchneider]] will make a test with this within this wiki)


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Revision as of 18:03, 10 November 2006

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Definition

  • “The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web.” Wikipedia: Semantic Web

Technology

Alternatively, there initiative outside the W3C, like:

The relation to Web 2.0

Web 2.0 does incorporate some "semantics" but globally speaking it is much inspired by making it as simple as possible. E.g.

  • Simple RSS (0.91, 2.0) instead of RSS 1.0 that was based on RDF
  • Folksonomies instead of formal taxnomies metadata based on RDF semantics
  • People-driven aggregation of knowledge (e.g. via syndication of the blogsphere) instead of smarter search engines. An exception are some of the best citation indexes that use both approaches.

Some examples