Tim Berners-Lee, the top candidate for “inventing the internet”, noted the coming power of the semantic web in a recent interview. Berners-Lee gave the following provocative example of the kind of functionality we’ll see when our online data stream starts to link with other data, and applications are built that can leverage all this new connectivity:
“Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the same language and could share information with one another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of dots More»

Labels: API, powerset, semantic web, tim berners-lee, times of london

The W3C has announced the publishing of an early draft of HTML 5. As stated, this revision of the web markup language is intended to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich web content and web apps.
“HTML is of course a very important standard,” said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML and W3C Director. “I am glad to see that the community of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web.”
The previous version, HTML 4, was first published some time back in Dec. 1997. More»

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The W3C has announced the publication of SPARQL , a language for querying distributed data on the web. Similar to the way SQL is a generic language used to query relational databases regardless of vendor, SPARQL will allow users and applications to create queries that express high-level goals across many different data sources, regardless of the database technology or data format involved.
From the W3C press release:
“Trying to use the Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational database without SQL,” explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. “SPARQL makes it possible to query information More»

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