Could develop a program or browser extension that helps put such a
"resource declaration" on a web page, blog post, etc. to declare a
resource to facilitate its retrieval by people interested in the same
topic and resource type.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
// Topic-ID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone // Resource-Type: product
// Title: Galaxy Nexus
// Description: Touchscreen slate Android smartphone by Samsung and
Google
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
This will be "the Semantic Web done right", I think.
For one thing, Wikipedia has the largest, most comprehensive ontology
on the Web (even larger than academia-produced WordNet and Cyc). For
another thing, people really like Wikipedia and use it every day.
> Could develop a program or browser extension that helps put such a
> "resource declaration" on a web page, blog post, etc. to declare a
> resource to facilitate its retrieval by people interested in the same
> topic and resource type.
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
> // Topic-ID:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone > // Resource-Type: product
> // Title: Galaxy Nexus
> // Description: Touchscreen slate Android smartphone by Samsung and
> Google
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
> This will be "the Semantic Web done right", I think.
> For one thing, Wikipedia has the largest, most comprehensive ontology
> on the Web (even larger than academia-produced WordNet and Cyc). For
> another thing, people really like Wikipedia and use it every day.
Let me make a more complex example. Suppose I'm a professor interested
in hiring a PhD student to research "father-bother merger". I could
post such a resource manifest on my blog:
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
// Topic-ID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back... // Resource-Type: job
// Title: PhD Student
// Description: Looking for a PhD student to research the phonological
phenomenon of "father-bother merger".
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
Perspective PhD students interested in this specific topic ("father-
bother merger") will use a program to automatically search the web or
the blogsphere for any new resource manifests whose Topic-ID is
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Father.E2.80.93bother_merge r"
and whose Resource-Type is "job". Of course they can further filter
manifests whose Title contains "PhD".
> On Dec 25, 10:48 am, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could develop a program or browser extension that helps put such a
> > "resource declaration" on a web page, blog post, etc. to declare a
> > resource to facilitate its retrieval by people interested in the same
> > topic and resource type.
> > This will be "the Semantic Web done right", I think.
> > For one thing, Wikipedia has the largest, most comprehensive ontology
> > on the Web (even larger than academia-produced WordNet and Cyc). For
> > another thing, people really like Wikipedia and use it every day.
> Let me make a more complex example. Suppose I'm a professor interested
> in hiring a PhD student to research "father-bother merger". I could
> post such a resource manifest on my blog:
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
> // Topic-ID:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back...
> // Resource-Type: job
> // Title: PhD Student
> // Description: Looking for a PhD student to research the phonological
> phenomenon of "father-bother merger".
> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////
> Perspective PhD students interested in this specific topic ("father-
> bother merger") will use a program to automatically search the web or
> the blogsphere for any new resource manifests whose Topic-ID is
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Father.E2.80.93bother_merge r"
> and whose Resource-Type is "job". Of course they can further filter
> manifests whose Title contains "PhD".
Note that a manifest can have more than one Topic-ID. For example, in
the above example, we can add two Topic-IDs:
> Perspective PhD students interested in this specific topic ("father-
> bother merger") will use a program to automatically search the web or
> the blogsphere for any new resource manifests whose Topic-ID is
> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Father.E2.80.93bother_merge r"
> and whose Resource-Type is "job". Of course they can further filter
> manifests whose Title contains "PhD".
Well, sort of, but the question is: will there be a powerful
query language for this kind of metadata, or will it be some
kind of a simplistic keyword search engine instead?
FWIW, one can use SPARQL against structured data extracted from
Wikipedia, like, right now. Consider checking the DBpedia
project at http://dbpedia.org/.
E. g., one can search for all the fantasy genre fiction,
authored by persons born in the XIX century with a SPARQL query
like:
Thanks to RDFa, such descriptions could readily be added to,
e. g., XHTML-based Web pages, and then processed by a variety of
tools, such as those associated with the Redland RDF library.
