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What is the Structured Web?
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has creator: Mike Bergman
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created: 2007-07-18T17:05:58Z
content: The structured Web is object-level data within Internet documents and databases that can be extracted, converted from available forms, represented in standard ways, shared, re-purposed, combined, viewed, analyzed and qualified without respect to originating form or provenance. Over the past few months I have increasingly been writing about and referring to the structured Web. I have done so purposefully, but, so far, with little background or explication. With the inauguration of this occasional series, I hope to bring more color and depth to this topic [1]. Literally, over the past year, I have been learning and documenting on AI3 my attempts to understand the basis, concepts and tools of the emerging semantic Web. In that process, I have come to define my own outlines of the Web past, present and future. Within this world view, I see the structured Web as today's current imperative and reality. Confusing Terminology Surrounding Obvious Change Some Web pundits have embraced a versioning terminology of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 to describe one such world view. I don't personally agree with this silly versioning -- indeed I poked fun in a tongue-in-cheek posting about Web 98.6 more than a year ago -- but such terminology has gotten some traction and serves a purpose. I actually give my own definitions for such "versions" below if for no other reason than to close the gap with alternative world views. We need not go back to the alternative early protocols of Usenet (and news groups), Gopher and FTP and their search engines of Veronica, WAIS, Jughead or Archie in 1991 [2] when Tim Berners-Lee first publicly announced the World Wide Web and its combination of hypertext with the Internet. More likely, the release of the Mosaic browser and CERN's decision to make access to the Web free in 1993 marked the true take-off point for the Web and the continued demise of the competing protocols. Images and links in Web pages ("documents") plus the HTML mark-up language to enable the st…
encoded: The structured Web is object-level data within Internet documents and databases that can be extracted, converted from available forms, represented in standard ways, shared, re-purposed, combined, viewed, analyzed and qualified without respect to originating form or provenance. Over the past few months I have increasingly been writing about and referring to the structured Web. I have done so purposefully, but, so far, with little background or explication. With the inauguration of this occasional series, I hope to bring more color and depth to this topic [1]. Literally, over the past year, I have been learning and documenting on AI3 my attempts to understand the basis, concepts and tools of the emerging semantic Web. In that process, I have come to define my own outlines of the Web past, present and future. Within this world view, I see the structured Web as today’s current imperative and reality. Confusing Terminology Surrounding Obvious Change Some Web pundits have embraced a versioning terminology of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 to describe one such world view. I don’t personally agree with this silly versioning — indeed I poked fun in a tongue-in-cheek posting about Web 98.6 more than a year ago — but such terminology has gotten some traction and serves a purpose. I actually give my own definitions for such “versions” below if for no other reason than to close the gap with alternative world views. We need not go back to the alternative early protocols of Usenet (and news groups), Gopher and FTP and their search engines of Veronica, WAIS, Jughead or Archie in 1991 [2] when Tim Berners-Lee first publicly announced the World Wide Web and its combination of hypertext with the Internet. More likely, the release of the Mosaic browser and CERN‘s decision to make access to the Web free in 1993 marked the true take-off point for the Web and the continued demise of the competing protocols. Images and links in Web pages (“documents”) plus the HTML mark-up language to enable the styl…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Deep Web
topic: Information Automation
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Structured Web
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