Difference between revisions of "Developing Wikipedia Plus"
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The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web Semantic Web] (web of meaning) is a successor to the WWW (web of text). The basic idea is, rather than having text, which humans process, data is have machine-readable so that computers can process it. Not only should this decrease barriers of human language between users (since computers could assist in translation), but computer-mediated queries could become possible, as opposed to simple text matching, as is still the case on modern search engines. W3C's semantic web language (RDF) associates each 'meaning' with a separate URI (web address). | The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web Semantic Web] (web of meaning) is a successor to the WWW (web of text). The basic idea is, rather than having text, which humans process, data is have machine-readable so that computers can process it. Not only should this decrease barriers of human language between users (since computers could assist in translation), but computer-mediated queries could become possible, as opposed to simple text matching, as is still the case on modern search engines. W3C's semantic web language (RDF) associates each 'meaning' with a separate URI (web address). | ||
| − | The wide vocabulary and localisation of Wikipedia make it a natural candidate for a semantic web URIs, and Wikipedia+ is another step towards establishing them de facto as such. Currently, Wikipedia+ is designed for users of the WWW, and it simply issues an HTTP HEAD request to establish the presence or absence of a page with the required name. In the future, however, operations might not be so limited. For example, it could carry out a semantic query. | + | The wide vocabulary and localisation of Wikipedia make it a natural candidate for a semantic web URIs, and Wikipedia+ is another step towards establishing them ''de facto'' as such. Currently, Wikipedia+ is designed for users of the WWW, and it simply issues an HTTP HEAD request to establish the presence or absence of a page with the required name/language combination. In the future, however, operations might not be so limited. For example, it could carry out a semantic query. |
== XML File Formats == | == XML File Formats == | ||
