Semantic Web

From Memography

The Semantic Web is all those web pages that have been augmented with machine-readable information that communicates the meaning (semantics) of the page and its contents.

The Semantic Web is built on top of a number of standard protocols - RDF, RDF Schema, OWL (Web Ontology Language), and a set of rules governing inference logic that can reason (using artificial intelligence) to discover the aboutness of web content.

The Memetic Web, by comparison, is a simple scheme to embed the aboutness of a web page in the page with one or more explicit meme IDs that appear in the page and are thus visible to the web's search engines.

While memography and embedded aboutness is primitive compared to the Semantic Web, meme aboutness pages may serve as RDF property/value URIs for use in the Semantic Web.

adapted from a Semantic Web diagram by Eric Miller [1].

Ordinary hyperlinks simply point to other pages.

RDF metadata adds meaning about the page and its relationship to other pages.

Tagging a page with a memelink adds do-it-yourself meaning or aboutness to the page.

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