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Tying Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and Linked Data Together - Part 23: Linked Data is a Medium

Submitted by Ericlogan from Google Reader

May 11, 2009

Summary

What is the semantic web? Here again I’ll refer to a post I wrote not too long ago, writing this is “a web in which machines get the meaning of information and use that understanding to transform/organize/synthesize data intelligently on our behalf.” Definition varies, but overall I think we all agree that the Semantic Web is an attempt at enabling machines to better understand and transform data. I’d say this is the overarching Objective, with a big O, of the semantic web.

Because I think the next step, the How, is usually where we get lost and diverge, now I’d like to decompose things about the Semantic Web a little further, while hopefully keeping it simple.. . So I’ll propose that the Semantic Web will really be enabled by two very different things:

* Linked Data (or other formats embedding links at the data level)
* Text Analysis and other technologies to structure data