[Pointrel-discuss] Slashdot | The Web of Data, Beyond What Google and Yahoo Show

[Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...>]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/26/2211222/The-Web-of-Data-Beyond-What-Google-and-Yahoo-Show
"Both Google and Yahoo have been supporting Semantic Web markup (RDFa, RDF 
and Microformats) for weeks and months respectively. What they do, at the 
moment, is use the markup only for visual feedback by returning better 
looking, more functional 'page snippets.' But how would it look if you could 
get all these bits and compose them automatically to form a single 
structured information page about what you're searching for? The folks at 
the DERI institute have just released Sig.ma, a visual browser and mashup 
generator that will go all over the web of data and find dozens of sources 
to combine together when answering a user query. It also comes in API mode 
to reuse the information Sig.ma finds inside applications. Here are a 
screencast and a blog post, with semantic-web-geek details."

--Paul Fernhout