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I have been starting to write a huge intro into web3 and semantic web and Next Gen Web stuff as an intro for this blog.
But I scrapped it <silent cry>
I think we all can find out what these things are for ourselves right? For instance on web 1.0 sites where you can look it up and browse through. Or search for it on the largest community edited dictionary in the world. Or use the new semantic version of the same concept. And you can even fire of that exact question on one of the new Natural Language driven search engines.
Or I’ll just quote the exact Wikipedia article myself here, I am allowed to and it will probably save you some time. And that is exactly what this is all about right?
Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously including:
- transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.
- ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;
- network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;
- open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);
- open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;
- the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores;
- distributed databases, the “World Wide Database” (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and
- intelligent applications, natural language processing.[2], machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents.[3]
So I am not going to write about Semantic Agents, Ontologies , RDF, Triples, N3, OWL and all the different formats and concepts. I am going to talk about real world uses for all these weird sounding things.
As you might have noticed, I also don’t shy away from giving everything a frame of reference, that is what those numbers represent actually.
Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously.:
It is in part pure marketing, calling something web 2.0 or something web 3.0, companies got (and get) funded just by having those terms in their business models. However like I said, they are here for frames of reference.
They are not version numbers (although the major.minor format doesn’t hold up my statement very well) but generation numbers.
We are heading for the third generation of the web, A new and exciting web, one that Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned more then a decade ago. But it’s not all just Semantic Web. It is more then that- It is Intelligence, Open Formats, Open Identification, Computing in the Cloud, and Ambiguous Connections.
So, here at struct3 we are not going to go into the underlying technologies, frameworks and science of this stuff. Where we can we will touch on them though…No- we will be presenting real world uses, real tangible stuff that is out there now- using these concepts, news about companies and the people who run them ,pick the brains of scholars and find out how ordinary people like you and me can use Semantic web and Web3 technology now.
We are heading for the next generation of the web. Hang on…and enjoy the ride!
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struct3 rocks !
.. have a good decade with semantic web..