The
semantic web is Tim Burners-Lee's latest endeavor. It receives a lot
of press because of the person behind the project. I've read extensive
info about this "semantic web" project, and I must admit I am somewhat skeptical
of it's likelihood. See:
I
think the concepts are hardly the prophecy they are made out to be, and fairly
obvious. The same results will come naturally from newer
technologies such as XML, web services, and .NET. I am not quite
sure why we need TBL to lead us to the Semantic holy grail. But I
digress.
As it
relates to DQSD, I've found the DQSD direction to be focused on pure
searching. I maintain a separate "build" of DQSD with an add-on I
wrote that I call Snippets. Snippets allow you to save chunks of
web pages (without knowing HTML). When I introduced
it originally, some felt it was outside the scope of
DQSD.
I've
since though of integrating various features into DQSD. I've done a
lot of (unrelated) work with RSS new feeds, and I have considered adding
the feature to DQSD to show a news ticker during idle time.
RSS is really the first fruit of a semantic web coming to harvest.
However, the DQSD direction of sticking to the bread and butter searching leaves
me a little uninterested in working on such things.
If there were enough interest I'd love to
fork DQSD into something less constrictive. At the same time, I'd
hate to do it too.
-Dan
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Subject: [DQSD-Users] dsdq and knowledge management
?
Even though dqsd is just a _search_ tool by design, I can easily get
carried away and try to use it as a knowledge management tool, because of the
inherent richness of information that (expert) searching on the web provides.
However, since it wasn't designed for knowledge management in the first place,
dsdq quickly falls short of helping organize/search knowledge. This
fundamental issue is with the way the web is designed today: search engines
search for data (sintax), as opposed to knowledge (semantics).
I read somewhere that several research groups are working to
define structure and tools for a next generation knowledge-based web
(semantic web). I wonder if anyone in this distribution list can share some
thoughts on how far dsdq is or could be from evolving into a knowledge
management tool for the web.
An immediate area that comes to mind is to write searches that rely
on semantic search engines, if there are any out there yet. Any
pointers?
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