Web 3.0 – From a Web of connected documents to a Web of connected data

1, 2, 3 – a new Web paradigm emerges: Web 3.0 – The Semantic Web, The Intelligent Web.

What’s this about? Some hints:

 

Nova Spivack, November 12, 2006 in kurzweilAI.net
“Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.”

“I propose expanding the above definition of Web 3.0 to be a bit more inclusive. There are actually several major technology trends that are about to reach a new level of maturity at the same time. The simultaneous maturity of these trends is mutually reinforcing, and collectively they will drive the third-generation Web. From this broader perspective, Web 3.0 might be defined as a third-generation of the Web enabled by the convergence of several key emerging technology trends:
Ubiquitous Connectivity
* Broadband adoption
* Mobile Internet access
* Mobile devices
Network Computing
* Software-as-a-service business models
* Web services interoperability
* Distributed computing (P2P, grid computing ..)
Open Technologies
* Open APIs and protocols
* Open data formats
* Open-source software platforms
* Open data (Creative Commons, Open Data License, etc.)
Open Identity
* Open identity (OpenID)
* Open reputation
* Portable identity and personal data (for example, the ability to port your user account and search history from one service to another)
The Intelligent Web
* Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores such as triplestores, tuplestores and associative databases)
* Distributed databases—or what I call “The World Wide Database” (wide-area distributed database interoperability enabled by Semantic Web technologies)
* Intelligent applications (natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents).”

 

And JOHN MARKOFF, NY Times, November 12, 2006:

” In contrast, the Holy Grail for developers of the semantic Web is to build a system that can give a reasonable and complete response to a simple question like: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.” Under today’s system, such a query can lead to hours of sifting — through lists of flights, hotel, car rentals — and the options are often at odds with one another. Under Web 3.0, the same search would ideally call up a complete vacation package that was planned as meticulously as if it had been assembled by a human travel agent.

How such systems will be built, and how soon they will begin providing meaningful answers, is now a matter of vigorous debate both among academic researchers and commercial technologists. Some are focused on creating a vast new structure to supplant the existing Web; others are developing pragmatic tools that extract meaning from the existing Web.

But all agree that if such systems emerge, they will instantly become more commercially valuable than today’s search engines, which return thousands or even millions of documents but as a rule do not answer questions directly.”

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