Does the Semantic Web Exist?

June 13, 2012 / Melody Smith /

With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to dispute that the semantic web is no longer a pipedream. Yet, there are those who are doing just that.

This topic was inspired by an article on Wamda titled, “Links Are Not Answers: Cairo’s Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search.” Regardless of what you want to call it, achieving quality, comprehensive search results without the solid foundation of a standards-based taxonomy is the challenge. Without a taxonomy to index data, there are no smooth flows through a decision tree, and valuable business intelligence is lost. Building a solid taxonomy requires experience and standards – both of which Access Innovations has in spades. Access Innovations’ solutions are ANSI compliant and implement state-of-the-art technology to speed tagging and reduce errors.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

2 Comments

  1. melody on June 13, 2012 at 9:48 pm

    Seth – Thanks for sharing your insight. Semantic is the word of the year, if not the decade, and everyone is using it. It will be interesting to see where the end of this ride takes us. Have a great week.



  2. Seth Grimes on June 13, 2012 at 6:39 am

    Melody, Siri and Kngine (to the extent I understand them) have nothing to do with the Semantic Web, which would be a network of Linked Data resources built on a certain set of protocols and standards. Use of semantic technologies, including Semantic Web technologies such as OWL, RDF & SPARQL, doesn’t make an application part of “the” Semantic Web. Rather, these applications and others, including Google search (via the knowledge graph), semanticize the existing Web. There’s a big difference, between the dream on one hand and the reality of working applications on the other.

    Seth, http://twitter.com/sethgrimes