What Is The “Semantic Web” And Why We Need It!

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1. Daniel Lorch says

   Yeah, nice and all, but what’s the meaning of semantic?

   17. January 2008, 21:55
2. CoCaman says

   Well, it means giving some sort of additional information to something. In this case it is describing a text.

   <div id=”hcard-Camichel” class=”vcard”>
   <span class=”fn n”>
   <span class=”given-name”>Corsin</span>
   <span class=”family-name”>Camichel</span>
   </span>
   <div class=”adr”>
   <span class=”locality”>Rapperswil</span>
   </div>

   This HTML snippet describes a person (me ) with my given-name (= Corsin), family name (= Camichel) and my location (= Rapperswil).
   No you could easily run a parser and export that data as a vCard or other contact information.

   18. January 2008, 11:40
3. Daniel Lorch says

   It was supposed to be some sort of comical comment, since “meaning” = Bedeutung and “semantics” = Bedeutung. So asking for the meaning of semantics is like asking for the color of a white horse.

   I have a hCard on http://nine.ch/about/ by the way. Alexa.com used to have a hCard search engine (discontinued) and Firefox 3.0 is supposed to support microformats natively. So I’m really looking forward to that.

   But having microformats right now is like serving your website with application/xhtml+xml. It’s totally cool, but nobody cares.

   18. January 2008, 14:54
4. CoCaman says

   > color of a white horse
   What a stupid question. White of course!

   Yeah, and Internet Explorer 8 will have microformats built-in (and they are Acid proof . Maybe time to switch back! *runs*

   > It’s totally cool, but nobody cares.
   I care. And more and more people care. I think and really hope semantics will be a big hit in 2008 and later. Makes the life of stealing … mashing up and exchanging data so much easier.

   18. January 2008, 14:58
5. stefan2904 says

   @acid2: ff3 too!

   18. January 2008, 21:46