Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A
"The idea is to help computers become learning machines, not just pattern matchers and calculators"..."This is the first non-sarcastic reference to Web 3.0 I’ve seen in the wild”
Information vs Knowledge To a machine, knowledge is comprehended information (aka new information produced through the application of deductive reasoning to exiting information). To a machine, information is only data, until it is processed and compr
Machines (or machine-based reasoning, aka 'AI software' or ‘info agents’) would then be able to use those laboriously –but not entirely manually– constructed ontologies to build a view (or formal model) of how the individual terms within the infor
“The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web.” "Google's very broad take on Web 3.0...enables you to use you
WebMind is a Java-based software system which evolves its own "digital intuition," and using this intuition, poses and answers questions regarding information...freely making generalizations spanning different types of data.
C. Herzog, M. Luger, and M. Herzog. Proceedings of the ESWC'07 workshop \"Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0\", Innsbruck, Austria, (June 2007)