Nova Spivack on the Semantic Web, Collective Intelligence and Hyperdata
Published 2 years ago by James Simmons
Nova Spivack posted The Semantic Web, Collective Intelligence and Hyperdata, a response to Tim O'Reilly's recent post about the Economist. I found Nova's response to be very informative. He shared some of his insightful ideas, such as folktologies — emergent, community generated ontologies. He believes that the Semantic Web is all about collective intelligence, and he suggests that the term "hyperdata" could be a useful way to express what the Semantic Web is all about.
He goes on to cover the following topics:
- What Makes Something a Semantic Web Application?
- Semantic Versus Semantic Web
- The Difference Between "Data On the Web" and a "Web of Data"
- The Semantic Web is Built by and for Collective Intelligence
- Folktologies
- Web 3.0 and the concept of "Hyperdata"
About the author
It's my goal to help bring about the Semantic Web. I also like to explore related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. I'm the primary author of Semantic Focus and I'm currently working on several Semantic Web projects.
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Posted by Mihai Campean on September 24, 2007 at 1:34am
Quite a great set of explanations about the Semantic Web's purpose from Nova Spivack. Definitely an engaging and a recommended read for everybody who still is confused about what the Semantic Web really is.
I believe it is great that some standards for knowledge representation are emerging and they will be a necessary step towards a world with more helpful applications that will be able to reason using information that is stored and transmitted in a standard way.
Posted by James on September 24, 2007 at 2:19pm
Absolutely, these are exciting times. Nova covers some great points in that post. I was especially intrigued by his mention of folktologies. I've been mulling over a similar concept for a project I'm working on (Open Vocabulary). Oh yeah, stay tuned for that ;)