Thursday, 9 August 2007

Monkey note on the semantic web

Web 3.0 and the semantic web seem to be interchangeable :
Nicholas Carr has been so kind as to provide us with a definition of Web 3.0 : (...) involves the disintegration of digital data and software into modular components that, through the use of simple tools, can be reintegrated into new applications or functions on the fly by either machines or people.
However, for the sake of comprehension I do prefer the definition by Tim Berners-Lee who first coined the term WWW or Word Wide Web :
clipped from en.wikipedia.org
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.
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And for the eager beavers amongst you, a semanticist classification of the subsequent Web Waves (again thank you Nicholas):

Web 1.0: web as people talking to machines

Web 2.0: web as people talking to people (through machines)

Web 3.0: web as machines talking to machines

Web 4.0: web as artificial intelligence complementing human race

Web 5.0: web as artificial intelligence supplanting human race