Top 5 Web Trends 2009: # 1 Structured Information on the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee said in February of this year that the Internet is becoming more informational and now we are using the Internet full of information, not documents and files as it was before. The organization that Tim Berners-Lee heads up, the W3C supports two major initiatives that help make the Internet more informational: the Semantic Web and the recent Linked Data .
Anyway, over the past few years we have seen several interesting examples of how to structure data and provide an opportunity for everyone to use it. The best example at the moment is Twitter, whose API is responsible for 90% of the service activity, thanks to third-party applications.
The basic principle of the information Internet formulated by Alex Iskold has not changed: “Unstructured information will be structured and this will open the way for a more reasonable use of the Internet.
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OpenCalais Example # 1
Our first example is probably the best representative. Linked Data (structured information type supported by W3C). Thomson Reuters, an international business and financial news giant, launched an API called OpenCalais in February 2008, OpenCalais translates unstructured HTML into semantically marked documents, organizing information into groups: people, places, companies, and others. Thus, third-party applications and websites can use the processed information, creating new interesting services.
To more fully understand what Linked Data is, read the article Alexander Korth: The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information published in April, I also explained the advantages of Linked Data in May post Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care.
Google Rich Snippets Case # 2
In May of this year, Google added Rich Snippets to the search engine, this function extracts and displays useful information from web sites, using open standards for structured information, such as microformats and RDFa. By launching this feature, Google encouraged developers to tag their HTML code. The proliferation of this technology will take time, but the fact that big companies like Google are starting to participate in this indicates the growing importance of structured information on the Internet.
Meanwhile, other large companies are also moving in this direction, especially Yahoo , which was the first in this.
Example 3 Wolfram Alpha
Starting with the crazy launch of the project, shrouded in all sorts of rumors, we have been closely watching this innovative product . he describes himself as: “I am a computational knowledge engine,” despite the fact that this is not Google's killer, as many have predicted, the service has many potential users who will like it.
The Wolfram Alpha interface is reminiscent of the POSKOV interface, you also type a query in the input line. But the main thing is the use of information and calculations that can be made with information. If Web 2.0 is the creation of information by users, then the next generation of the Internet will be based on the use of this information.
Conclusion
These three examples show that structured information is quickly becoming part of the Internet today. Google, Thomson Reuters and many others are already using or developing methods and tools for structuring information, and new types of products (such as Wolfram Alpha) will use structured information in ways that we cannot assume now.
PS translations of the remaining parts will be published every day. :-)
Anyway, over the past few years we have seen several interesting examples of how to structure data and provide an opportunity for everyone to use it. The best example at the moment is Twitter, whose API is responsible for 90% of the service activity, thanks to third-party applications.
The basic principle of the information Internet formulated by Alex Iskold has not changed: “Unstructured information will be structured and this will open the way for a more reasonable use of the Internet.
')
OpenCalais Example # 1
Our first example is probably the best representative. Linked Data (structured information type supported by W3C). Thomson Reuters, an international business and financial news giant, launched an API called OpenCalais in February 2008, OpenCalais translates unstructured HTML into semantically marked documents, organizing information into groups: people, places, companies, and others. Thus, third-party applications and websites can use the processed information, creating new interesting services.To more fully understand what Linked Data is, read the article Alexander Korth: The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information published in April, I also explained the advantages of Linked Data in May post Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care.
Google Rich Snippets Case # 2
In May of this year, Google added Rich Snippets to the search engine, this function extracts and displays useful information from web sites, using open standards for structured information, such as microformats and RDFa. By launching this feature, Google encouraged developers to tag their HTML code. The proliferation of this technology will take time, but the fact that big companies like Google are starting to participate in this indicates the growing importance of structured information on the Internet.
Meanwhile, other large companies are also moving in this direction, especially Yahoo , which was the first in this.
Example 3 Wolfram Alpha
Starting with the crazy launch of the project, shrouded in all sorts of rumors, we have been closely watching this innovative product . he describes himself as: “I am a computational knowledge engine,” despite the fact that this is not Google's killer, as many have predicted, the service has many potential users who will like it.The Wolfram Alpha interface is reminiscent of the POSKOV interface, you also type a query in the input line. But the main thing is the use of information and calculations that can be made with information. If Web 2.0 is the creation of information by users, then the next generation of the Internet will be based on the use of this information.
Conclusion
These three examples show that structured information is quickly becoming part of the Internet today. Google, Thomson Reuters and many others are already using or developing methods and tools for structuring information, and new types of products (such as Wolfram Alpha) will use structured information in ways that we cannot assume now.
PS translations of the remaining parts will be published every day. :-)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/69214/
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