Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 6: Employ the Semantic Web
- Aug 18, 2006
- Introduction to Voice XML Part 5: Voice XML Meets Web 2.0
- Introduction to Voice XML Part 4: Grammars, Scope, and Event Handlers
- Introduction to Voice XML Part 3: Voice XML Grammars
- Introduction to VoiceXML Part 2: Working with Forms
- An Introduction to VoiceXML
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 7: Ensure XML Security
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 6: Employ the Semantic Web
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 5: Making Web Services Work for You (Part 2 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 4: Parsing and Processing XML (Part 2 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 5: Making Web Services Work for You (Part 1 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 4: Parsing and Processing XML (Part 1 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 3: Exploring the Power of XSLT (Part 2 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 3: Transform with XSLT (Part 1 of 2)
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 2: Display for the Web
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 1: Read Before You Write
- Seven Steps to XML Mastery: About This Series
- XML at Interop 2005: Is XML Still Relevant?
- XML at JavaOne: Ten Years After
- Web Services Registries and Java: the Role of JAXR
- XML: Extending the Enterprise
- Web Services, Java, and JAXM
- Web Services and Java: Deconstructing the JWSDP
- The Wireless Web
- Wireless: The View from 30,000 feet
- XML and Distributed Computing
- Wireless Markup Language--Beyond the Basics
- WMLScript
- A WAP Primer
- Wireless Markup Language
- JavaOne Day 2
Sun's embrace of dynamic scripting languages expands the reaches of the JVM.
- JavaOne - Reflection on Day One
- Lots of action on the official opening of JavaOne. Neil Young appeared on stage to show off his new 10 disc Blu-Ray music project.
- JavaOne Report
- Rolling into JavaOne 2008.
- Mashin' up with Voice XML
Voice XML opens up new opportunities for integrating voice into service oriented architectures.
What Is the Semantic Web?
The word semantic comes from semantikos, the Greek word for significant meaning. The vision of the semantic web is to infuse meaning to the innumerable pages, links, and resources that populate the World Wide Web. But, as with web services, we’re not just talking about meaning for humans, but meaning defined in a way that allows computers to search, collect, organize, and deduce information not explicitly laid out in a database or web page. The driving force behind the semantic web has been Tim Berners-Lee, who put the pieces in place in the 1990s to give us the Web as we know it today.
For all practical purposes, the Web is stupid. Web pages are built around HTML tags that describe how to render information in a browser, with practically no regard for what all that information means. Yes, there’s an HTML tag called meta that’s used to associate keywords with pages, but marketers seeking to appear high on Google’s search lists have packed the meta element with so many catchwords and phrases that the tag has lost all practical meaning.
In this, the sixth step on path to XML mastery, we’ll explore the semantic web by looking at some tools and technologies intended to take the Web to its next level of utility, to what some are calling Web 2.0.
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