Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme

May 6, 2004

I’m looking forward to reading Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme

by Steve Cayzer, Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections.

I came across the paper via Price’s ResourceShelf. I have to note a few of the other interesting papers he mentions, among them Eugene Garfield’s, The FUTURE of Citation Indexing: An Interview with Eugene Garfield, and a nice overview on how to search blogs that I will add to my next resource guide for an upcoming blog presentation I’m doing for AALT.

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