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We keep hearing rumblings of the coming semantic web: 2001: Tim Bernes-Lee publishes "The Semantic Web" in Scientific American Magazine 2006: Microsoft acq

We keep hearing rumblings of the coming semantic web: 2001: Tim Bernes-Lee publishes "The Semantic Web" in Scientific American Magazine 2006: Microsoft acquires Powerset 2009: Microsoft touts Bing as a "decision engine" 2010: Google acquires Metaweb 2012: Google introduces "Knowledge Graph" Is this the big one?

irickt 14y ago
2007+: work on machine operable Wikipedia (DBpedia, Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata) 2010: Apple acquires Siri 2010: Facebook introduces Open Graph 2011: Google, Bing, Yahoo (schema.org) agree to index embedded data
joshu 14y ago
you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right?
- sp332 14y ago
  The semantic web allows computers to deal with the "content" of pages instead of just displaying them. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
- irickt 14y ago
  Any linking provides context thus semantics. Linking to a schema makes this explicit. So it's both, right? Or are you making another point?
- mindcrime 14y ago
  you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right? I'm having trouble getting your point here. A schema can be thought of as metadata about the data to which it is applied; so "semantics of the schema" are also implicitly "semantics of the data" in a sense. I guess I'm missing some nuance about the point you're trying to make... would you care to elaborate?
- rictic 14y ago
  I'd give good odds that joshu already knows this, but I'd like to point out that a lot of work has gone into making freebase's schema machine readable. The schema is stored and constructed in the same way as all other data in freebase (as are metaschema, such as http://www.freebase.com/view/type/object/type http://www.freebase.com/view/type/object/type and so on).
- kjhughes 14y ago
  you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right? The meaning of semantics (semantics of semantics?) can get philosophical real quick. Here I'm just rolling with the OP's notion of things, not strings.
kleiba 14y ago
Slight correction: Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008.
- kjhughes 14y ago
  You're right. Thanks.

irickt 14y ago

2007+: work on machine operable Wikipedia (DBpedia, Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata) 2010: Apple acquires Siri 2010: Facebook introduces Open Graph 2011: Google, Bing, Yahoo (schema.org) agree to index embedded data

joshu 14y ago

you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right?

sp332 14y ago
The semantic web allows computers to deal with the "content" of pages instead of just displaying them. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
irickt 14y ago
Any linking provides context thus semantics. Linking to a schema makes this explicit. So it's both, right? Or are you making another point?
mindcrime 14y ago
you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right? I'm having trouble getting your point here. A schema can be thought of as metadata about the data to which it is applied; so "semantics of the schema" are also implicitly "semantics of the data" in a sense. I guess I'm missing some nuance about the point you're trying to make... would you care to elaborate?
rictic 14y ago
I'd give good odds that joshu already knows this, but I'd like to point out that a lot of work has gone into making freebase's schema machine readable. The schema is stored and constructed in the same way as all other data in freebase (as are metaschema, such as http://www.freebase.com/view/type/object/type http://www.freebase.com/view/type/object/type and so on).
kjhughes 14y ago
you realize that the semantic web is not about the semantics of the data, but instead about the semantics of the schema, right? The meaning of semantics (semantics of semantics?) can get philosophical real quick. Here I'm just rolling with the OP's notion of things, not strings.

kleiba 14y ago

Slight correction: Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008.

kjhughes 14y ago
You're right. Thanks.