I do hope Tim O’Reilly is aware of the “lowercase semantic web”, and the work that those in the microformats community have been doing. His recent post is an interesting survey of the kinds of informal semantic web projects which are between them implementing a kind of semantic web (what might be called a “more semantic web”).
Sadly, no reference to microformats, which I’d estimate now appear on tens of millions of pages, but references to projects like “freebase” (may I call it vapour, as for now, for all the excitment among the usual suspects, all it seems one can do is sign up for an invite, and the FAQ link doesn’t even work - c’mon people.)
But the overall approach I think is right. We have a working web now. There is a tonne of data on it - an unimaginable amount really. Let’s see what we can do with that, and how we can incrementally improve that.
[tags]semantic web, semweb, microformats[/tags]
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