6) How does it differ from web 3.0?
After conducting some research into the concept of semantic web, it seems like the main difference is, unsurprisingly, do to with meaning. Web 3.0 is merely able to present you with preset information, for example the layout of a web-site, links to other sites, the ability to search and then filter your results. However, it doesn’t have an understanding of the meaning behind the information it is presenting, human agency is required to actually make any useful sense of the information.
Semantic web, on the other hand, it is proposed will be able to understand the information it is telling you. In this way the possibilities from the web are dramatically increased. The article I was reading talks of an “agent” within a handheld web browser, this “agent” is able to search for information and marry it with other variables, the example given being able to search through a doctors schedule, and match it with your own to see when you are free to have an appointment, and further to when traffic is best and so on.
Berners-Lee,T., J. Hendler and O. Lassila (2001) ‘The Semantic Web’, Scientific American Volume 284 (Issue 5): P.28–37.
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This was helpful, thanks. RINCY (or ever, actually, as this is my last ever blog comment :P)
ReplyDeleteI think you've missed out on the 'anywhere anytime, we know what you want' aspect of Web 3.0?
ReplyDeleteIf you drew a Venn diagram, the version of Web 3.0 that most promoters seem to have in mind incorporates semantic data processing (at whatever stage it's available) so that 3.0's circle would encompass semantic's alongside a version of 'web' access that is more like radio. Where radio 'transception' enables, every process a computer can do, not just the reception of hit tunes.