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Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web

Source: ReadWriteWeb

May 14, 2009

Summary

I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3.0" concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data, and 3) the long-running saga that is the Semantic Web. Greg's series is probably the best explanation I've read all year about the way these trends are converging. In this post I'll highlight some of Greg's thoughts and add some of my own.

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Web 3.0: What Comes After 2.0 (!)

Part 1 of Boutin's series was about how Web 3.0 will not solve the vexing issue of Information Overload. At least not yet, because there is so much groundwork to lay first. Specifically, there is a lot of unstructured data on the Web right now; and it'll take a lot more sorting out before it gets to be structured.

Last year Boutin loosely defined web 3.0 as "the Web of Openness. A web that breaks the old siloes, links everyone everything everywhere, and makes the whole thing potential

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Toluju,

May 15, 2009

Decent high-level overview of semantic web tech. Goes to show how little actual "semantics" is really in the semantic web though - it's really more just about data standards.