Content Representation With A Twist

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Elements of Semantic Web Explained in an Environment of Buzz

In Minding the Planet, on February 13, 2007, Nova Spivack makes a lot of buzz about his upcoming venture, Radar Networks. Besides, he explains some of the elements of Semantic Web he considers to be key. Mostly, his posting commends the chance of ontologies to disambiguate homonyms, and that that disambiguation can be applied to documents by markup.

Some of the concepts, the posting does not get really clear, like information, content, concept, meaning, "things", data. The posting looks less scientific but very excited about the business of its author. There are lots of repetitions.

On the web side, the posting mentions the sites Powerset, TextDigger, Metaweb and the terms OWL and REST, which might be worth a look.


On the blogging side, Nova Spivack's posting can be tracked back, but only immediately. Blogger does not support that feature, hence, currently, I am stuck with manual trackback tools like Adam Kalsey's Simpletrack or the Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger. But the trackbacks generated by them, Nova Spivack's blog refuses by a captcha -- and both of the tools don't show that.

Despite Nova Spivack's posting didn't boosted me with concepts I didn't know yet, I'd be interested in learn about alternative manual trackback tools (either online or available for *nix) or any great but free alternatives to blogger.com. Can you provide me with a matching hint?

      
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