socialmedian: Wikipedia and the Semantic Web

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Oct 28, 2009

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About a month ago I posted (here) my thoughts about how Wikipedia can improve the Semantic Web. My take is that Wikipedia can provide a global and ever improving vocabulary bloggers and other content creators to provide richer context around what they write.

Several people contacted me after reading the post to ask about the best way to annotate their content, and to find out what else I think Wikipedia needs to do to make iteasier to create Semantic Web pages. The big question seemed to be: What context can bloggers add so that search engines and others understand their posts?

I’ll use a simple scenario to illustrate my answer to this question. Let’s say I am about to write a blog post on the healthcare debate. Obviously, I want to tell them I am talking mainly about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_US_healthcare_debate. And within that context I want to discuss thehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party. As you can see, Wikipedia provides me with a clear vocabulary

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