interview with the New York Times about The Semantic Web
An interesting interview with Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at the New York Times.
He talks about mobile content , rich annotation of NYT content, the Semantic web and ambiguous computing in particular.
I think it is very refreshing to hear ‘old’ media talk this way about the possibilities of semantic web. I believe the New York Times will be on the forefront of this new media revolution. Having mainstream media richly annotated means a tremendous benefit to everyone.
From people just interested to know how certain positions to a topic change over time, to straight queries as to the number of reported deaths due to climbing incidents to Natural language searches.
The next step is to open up this data of course. If they would embrace all areas of the Next Web- then that would be the most sensible step to take.
He also touches on QR codes very briefly. Funny to realise something as big in japan, is so unknown to western journalists.
he explains how comprehensive metadata annotation of content can make it “smart” so that content can become “device independent media,” content consumed anywhere on any device. This is the promise of the Semantic Web as The Times sees it.
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