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RDF, Open Calais, & The Semantic Web
Open Calais looks to be one of the best ways to start implementing semantic web capabilities on your websites and blogs. As Web 2.0 standards become entrenched, the movement towards Web 3.0 will inevitably start to quicken. What is the semantic web? In short, it is a way to improve the meta-tagging of information to facilitate machine processing. To quote Tim Berners-Lee:
“For the semantic web to function, computers must have access to structured collections of information and sets of inference rules that they can use to conduct automated reasoning. Artificial-intelligence researchers have studied such systems since long before the Web was developed. Knowledge representation, as this technology is often called, is currently in a state comparable to that of hypertext before the advent of the Web: it is clearly a good idea, and some very nice demonstrations exist, but it has not yet changed the world. It contains the seeds of important applications, but to realize its full potential it must be linked into a single global system.”
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