My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF

May 28, 2007

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No technology interests me more than the semantic web. I have no doubt that I will spend many years working on projects related to this vision — starting now. The concept captures my ‘grep understanding knowledge‘ theme beautifully, which is probably why it draws me so. From Wikipedia:

And since ideas ride protocols, the protocol of interest here looks to be RDF. Here’s the W3C description of RDF:

Based on the knowledge that I have so far (which admittedly isn’t much), I’m quite convinced that this — the semantic web riding on top of RDF or a similar XML-based protocol — is going to change the way we use the Internet. Not like YouTube or Facebook “changed” things, but more like going from BBSs to the Internet.

Here’s an example from W3C:

My specific area of focus, however, is going to be looking at how to leverage this technology with people.

That’s all I’m saying for now for two reasons. First, I need to research more to make sure the technology can do what I’m thinking it can. Secondly, it’s cooler if I don’t talk about it. Let me know out of band if you are interested in discussing and/or working on the project with me.:

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p align=”left”>Hint: Think “semantic personal information exchange using RDF”.

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