Looks like RDF has made a leap forward: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft agree on a
semantic markup:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
So Knowledge Reef (Marco) and Redfish were right about the importance of a
semantic framework (Triple Stores). Hope the underlying software technologies
now do well.
-- Owen
Quote: To make this information machine-processable, RDF defines a structure
for these statements. A statement is formally called a [triple], meaning that
it is made up of three components. The first is the subject of the triple, and
is what we are making our statements about. In all of these examples the
subject is 'Albert'.
The second part of a triple is the property of the subject that we want to
define. In the examples here, the properties would be 'was born on', 'was born
in', and 'has a picture at'. These are more usually called predicatesin RDF.
The final part of a triple is called the object. In the examples here the three
objects have the values 'March 14, 1879', 'Germany', and
'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg'.
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