Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman from U of S
- What is the web? - embodient of human knowledge - TBL
- The idea of linking
- "Digital Natives" don't know what it's like to be unplugged - Roland - I hate the term "digital natives" but I have to admit it does have relevance and meaning
- Mid 90s beginning of new web, resurgence of AI after the "AI winter of the 80s"
- AI driven by total connectivity and mobility and large sets of data and real time
- Data Mining was the result of this
- Out of this was born :-) the semantic web - XML, RDF, etc
- Describing the uppercase Semantic Web
- The revival of agents - to personalize the web for YOU
- Clippy was an early non web attempt from Microsoft (researcher blamed development team for not implementing "half" of it)
- Ontology - write things down in a standard way after we agree what we are talking about
- The hard part is doing "deep" things
- Semantic Web problems - technology is too hard for 'humans' (not compatible with 'view source' mentality of the web), tried to solve too generic problems
- Where are we ? Lots of techy tools that only techies can use (so works in scientific orgs like NASA and e-learning), Smart Agent promise not realized
- Moving on to Web 2.0 ....
- Parallel movement
- Purpose based rather than generic apps for social media and networking
- Facilitated by new tech like AJAX and consumer contributions (Wiki, Blogs, tagging)
- Took 10 years for the core ideas behind blogs (web page creation for everybody) and wikis (editing somebody else's website)
- YOU are the point of Web 2.0
- The Long Tail - people out there just like you no matter how microniche you are in
- Business has picked it up
- Web 2.0 is the greatest online word of mouth network
- Show "Teaching the machine" video from Kansas
- Web 2.0 has limitations....
- Noisy tags mean noisy knowledge
- Are we reaching a limit already?
- Does the machine learn from this?
- Thesis of Scott and Chris: convergence needs to happen
- Bring the high tech tools to cope with the Web 2.0 explosion of Content
- Few to Many and than Many to Everybody (Web 1.0) and then Web 2.0 Everybody to Everybody
- TBL's Semantic Web vision and Web 2.0 ARE compatible
- FOAF == machine readable social networking
- Ontologies 'r Us ! - Roland - Yes
- e.g. data mining of delicious - Peter Mika
- The Dark Side of the Semantic Web - James Hendler - A little bit of semantics i.e. structure will go a long way
- Mass Personalization is coming - Aries Lab is their project