Intro to the Semantic Web

awesome video

Excellent Video. But I dont think semantic web will be a big thing/have a breaktrough. Correct me if I'm wrong but you only add new information to webpages etc. and the semantic technology behind that can connect the information together. But it still doesnt understand it, right? It like the chinese room. And I think an AI approach like Google is a better way and you dont have to add new information.

The function on youtube, that at the right, there will be listed videos that is similar to the video you watch now, is that a form of early semantic web?

Excellent! Informative! And funny! :-)

I'm not trying to keep content creation in the hands of the experts, but, like with any system for doing anything, you need to learn how it works before you can really do anything effective in it. Sure, Adobe can add symantics support to Dreamweaver, but that will still require extra work for content creators to implement into their sites. It's a very difficult process to balance power with ease of use, and those who delve deeply into it will have that much more of an edge over everyone else.

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The problem is that semantic markup is a tedious task especially for non-expert users. We can foresee that Web 2.0 would accelerate the process of semantic markup. However, this won't be realized without a user-friendly framework for non-expert users. Moreover, ontological vocab is still an issue for semantic sharing/markup. I mean, who is responsible for hosting such ontology docs in the web? It would be a chaos if everyone uses their own 'semantics' for the markup.

let me direct you to one of the attempts to comprehend one of the problem you've mentioned, i.e. ontological vocab 'chaos': one possible solution is fuzzy ontology.

The only issue about semantic web is that their development is still reserved for geeks and people who learn the language. It's not in iWeb, nor in Frontpage or in Outlook... So how people could create such content? Maybe those technologies would need some support from software developers or online applications... and one standard.

Another place semantic markup comes in handy is accessibility. With the advent of "web 2.0", accessibility has taken a large step backwards. Semantic markup should help bring the web to more people and more devices that have a really hard time with it today.