Continuing on the theme of trust as a key component of the Semantic Web, and hot on the heels of Hakia’s announcement that they would seek help from librarians to build their search engine with credible websites, comes the announcement a few weeks ago of Reference Extract, this time from inside the library world. This [...]
If there was any doubt that libraries belong in semantic web development, check out these two examples of the semantic web applications that are emerging. The majority of applications available right now (or in preview/beta) focus on information management and search. Sounds like our business to me. With 2008 predicted by some as the year [...]
ReadWrite Web has a recent article on how semantic search works, Semantic Search: Myth and Reality. The article points out that semantic search will not solve all our search problems, it’s simply impossible. For those working with datasets, there will always be a great deal of cross-tabulation, manipulation (to reformat and present data) and manual [...]