Tom’s Semantic Web of Data
Tom Coates just posted the slides of his Future of Web Apps talk from the Carson Future of Web Apps Summit in London last week. He called the talk Native to a Web of Data but as I read it, part of it expressed far better than I’ve been able to get across: that the open data part of the web 2.0 buzzword space, actually aligns well with semantic web ideas - a web of data. (This isn’t so much of a surprise as Tom refers to work done with Matt Biddulph on the BBC PIP pages and Matt knows well when to use RDF, and when not).
If you read the summary slide it’s a good high-level approach for designing user-targeted semantic web models and systems. I’m about at #5 on this list myself, for something I’m designing at work.
Update: I should have mentioned the excellent notes on Tom’s talk provided by Simon Willison and others via SubEthaEdit.
PS We’re looking for semantic web developers at Yahoo!. If you can write code (Redland friendly would be good), know semweb and want to join the fun here, let me know.
13 February 2006 at 12:48 am
[...] Native to a Web of Data is a great presentation on what makes a good Web 2.0. This is Web 2.0 without the marketing hype, this is the Aggregate Web. A web of services and data, available for mashups and remixing. As Dave Beckett points out, the goals of the Aggregate Web are very similar to the Semantic Web’s goals. [...]
13 February 2006 at 3:04 am
[...] Although the material doesn’t contain any explicit reference to them, as Dave says, it “actually aligns well with semantic web ideas”. [...]
13 February 2006 at 8:50 am
Hi Dave, we should talk at some point… Radar Networks, my company, has been working in stealth, and for DARPA, for 4 years on a major new semantic web platform, in Java. We would be interested in discussing what Yahoo is doing with the semantic web and how our platform might help (we are several years ahead, technically, of everything we’ve seen in the space so far). Let me know if you want to talk sometime.
13 February 2006 at 1:21 pm
4 years? thats like 400 years in internet time.
22 February 2006 at 2:58 am
[...] Auch in „Native to a Web of Data“, einer Präsentation von Tom Coates von Yahoo, die er während der Konferenz „Future of Web Apps“ in London gehalten hat, wird in den ersten Folien der Präsentation die Undeutlichkeit des Begriffs Web 2.0 und seiner Anwendungen deutlich. Er zeigt diverse Anwendungen und verschiedene Graphiken, die versuchen das Web 2.0 darzustellen, welche nicht eine Antwort liefern, sondern viele Fragen aufwerfen. Tom Coates baut dann seine Präsentation auf folgenden Satz auf: „A web of data sources, services for exploring and manipulating data and ways that users can connect them together“. Aus dem Web von Dokumenten wird das Web der „Mash-Ups „ und daraus folgt das Web of Data. Dave Beckett bezieht sich auf diese Präsentation und schreibt in seinem Blog “ that the open data part of the web 2.0 buzzword space, actually aligns well with semantic web ideas – a web of data”, da auch im Semantic Web die maschinenlesbaren Daten ein wesentliches Merkmal sind. [...]
13 October 2006 at 10:57 am
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