Semantic Web - Why Do We Need It?

Nov 30 2006  | Views 72 |  Comments  (0) Leave a Comment
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What is Semantic Web? Why do we need it? What can we do with it? This cool video (about 7 minutes) offers the simplest description and covers a few aspects of the semantic web. We need more of these.

  • Semantic Web is a layer on the existing web
  • By adding additional data (referred to as metadata), applications can derive more meaningful data from the web
  • It is a way to connect people and data

Eyal Oren also talks about the project he is working on - Semantic Desktop. Most of the semantic web description focuses on how it works, the underlying technologies (like RDF, OWL). It is nice to have a video where you get a non-technical explanation of what it is and what you can get out of it. Hope DERI will produce more of these videos.

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