Monday, 28 November 2011

What is Twine? And what has it got to do with WEB 3.0?

Twine is a hosted service that uses open semantic standards RDF, OWL, and SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language), but will probably become available for large organizations. It will be free, supported by personalized advertisements, but premium versions will become available that have storage and admin options.

I found this opinion on a website and i agree with it :)
I'm skeptical of the idea that machines can find the meaning in Web pages without the page's creator specifying the information, as is Twine's proposed goal. Say a Web page for a product contains this data: "This is a consumer electronics product. Here's the product name. It's a television. It's a widescreen television. It costs £999. This is the description." Without someone supplying the metadata for each of these pieces of information, how can an algorithm know where on the page the relevant data is? Maybe that's just where Radar's secret sauce comes in, and you have to give the company credit for tackling this challenge.

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