This document provides an overview of the semantic web and its evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0. It discusses the academic and business sides of the semantic story. Academically, the semantic web aims to make information on the web more useful and reusable through unambiguous tagging. Businesses see the semantic web as a way to make sense of large amounts of online data and content and deliver customized meaning. The document also describes one company's software for extracting meaning from text using semantic analysis.
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OpenAmplify and the Semantic Web
1. THE SEMANTIC WEB
A BRIEF OVERVIEW
DAVE WEINBERG
@WEINBERG81
WWW.OPENAMPLIFY.COM
2. HISTORY
WEB 1.0 - BULLHORN. 1992 - 2002
WEB 2.0 - CONVERSATION. 2003 - 2008
WEB 3.0 - SEMANTIC. 2008 - NOW
3. TWO SIDES TO THE
SEMANTIC STORY
ACADEMIC BUSINESS
LINKED DATA MAKING SENSE OF THE
CONVERSATION
CONNECTED WEB
SOLVES PROBLEMS:
NEXT GENERATION OF:
TOO MUCH DATA, HOW
APPLICATIONS, BROWSERS, TO MONETIZE SOCIAL
SYSTEMS AND MORE... MEDIA?
4. ACADEMIC - TODAY
"TODAY, THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM
IS A LOOSELY CONNECTED, AD HOC
COLLAGE OF DATA THAT GENERALLY
DOESN'T WORK VERY HARD."
-DAVID SIEGEL, PULL
5. ACADEMIC - VISION
"A NEW WAY OF PACKAGING INFORMATION TO MAKE
IT MUCH MORE USEFUL AND REUSABLE...
UNAMBIGUOUS, TAGGED IN A ROYALTY-FREE
FORMAT, GOVERNED BY A NONPROFIT ORG, THAT ALL
SOFTWARE CAN UNDERSTAND."
-DAVID SIEGEL, PULL
"THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN CATEGORIZE
EVERYTHING IS EVERYBODY."
- CLAY SHIRKY
6. BUSINESS - VISION
EVERY TWO DAYS NOW WE CREATE AS MUCH
INFORMATION AS WE DID FROM THE DAWN OF
CIVILIZATION UP UNTIL 2003.
- ERIC SCHMIDT, CEO GOOGLE.
GOAL:
DELIVER INSTANT CUSTOMIZABLE
MEANING ON TOP OF REAL WORLD DATA
AND ABUNDANT CONTENT STREAMS.
7. THE SOCIAL UNIVERSE
*IN MILLIONS
HOW TO MONETIZE THE ONSLAUGHT OF CONTENT?
AS OF AUGUST 2010 (BY JESS3)
8. OPENAMPLIFY - NOW
EXTRACTS EVERY LAST PIECE OF MEANING FROM
TEXT AND PRESENTS THE FINDINGS BACK IN A
COMPREHENSIVE XML SCHEMA.
9. BUSINESS EXAMPLE
GIVES BRANDS THE ABILITY TO ASSESS WHAT
RESPONDENTS MEAN IN CONSUMER RESEARCH ABOUT
BRANDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN ANALYSIS.
SCANS CONTENT ACROSS THE WEB AS PEOPLE CREATE IT, AND
ASSOCIATES CONTENT CREATORS WITH THE EMOTIONS THEY
EXPRESS ABOUT BRANDS, ACTIVITIES, AND OTHER TOPICS.
10. WHATS NEW?
AMPLIVERSE
CUSTOMIZABLE TAXONOMY
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CLUTCH?
IS THAT ABOUT CARS OR FASHION?
ONCE YOU CAN CATEGORIZE AND DELIVER MEANING YOU CAN
HAVE ACTIONABLE RESULTS.
11. QUESTIONS?
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DAVE WEINBERG
@WEINBERG81
DAVE.WEINBERG@OPENAMPLIFY.COM
WWW.OPENAMPLIFY.COM