The Semantic Web: Clarified and Mystified
November 4, 2016
Navigate to “Semantic Web Speculations.” After working through the write up, I believe there are some useful insights in the write up.
I highlighted this passage:
Reaching to information has been changed quite dramatically from printed manuscripts to Google age. Being knowledgeable less involves memorizing but more the ability to find an information and ability to connect information in a map-like pattern. However, with semantic tools become more prevalent and a primary mode of reaching information changes, this is open to transform.
I understand that the Google has changed how people locate needed information. Perhaps the information is accurate? Perhaps the information is filtered to present a view shaped by a higher actor’s preferences? I agree that the way in which people “reach” information is going to change.
I also noted this statement:
New way of being knowledgeable in the era of semantic web does not necessarily include having the ability to reach an information.
Does this mean that one can find information but not access the source? Does the statement suggest that one does not have to know a fact because awareness that it is there delivers the knowledge payload?
I also circled this endorsement of link analysis, which has been around for decades:
It will be more common than any time that relations between data points will have more visibility and access. When something is more accessible, it brings meta-abilities to play with them.
The idea that the conversion of unstructured information into structured data is a truism. However, the ability to make sense of the available information remains a work in progress as is the thinking about semantics.
Stephen E Arnold, November 4, 2016
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