This video provides an excellent and simple introduction to the Semantic Web and at the end provides links to additional sites for more information. Since I am working in text analysis and exploring how to add metadata, taxonomy, and more descriptive data to content this is very helpful. Manu Sporny is the co-chair of the RDFa working group at the World Wide Web Consortium. Interestingly, “RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding machine-readable information to a site. RDFa gives hints to web browsers, which give people more options when interacting with a web page. RDFa enables new interactions such as automatically adding people to address books, adding events to personal calendars, getting directions to a place described by RDFa, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDFa.”
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