<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e37d6dfa-c36e-4e9c-b23e-2ddaac21a18b/F1FEE8D8-6CEB-42B0-B60A-3A509573E724/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/" href="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/" style="font-size: 11px;">onlinejournalismblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/"><P>So the aim of the ’semantic web’ is to allow data to be accessed and shared effectively by wider communities, yet processed automatically by computer.  In order for this to happen there needs to be a simple system to catagorise data so it can be easily located and organised.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/"><P>Much progress has been made in this infrastructure, particularly in the development of the new languages - Resource Description Framework (<A href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/" linkindex="61">RDF</A>) and Web Ontology Language (<A href="http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/" linkindex="62">OWL</A>) - by the <A href="http://www.w3.org/" linkindex="63">World Wide Web Consortium</A> .  The languages are used to annotate code, representing ‘knowledge’ which will enable applications to use them more intelligently.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/"><P>At the moment <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML" linkindex="64">HTML</A> is limited to describing static content, documents and the links between them. However RDF, OWL, and <A href="http://www.w3.org/XML/" linkindex="65">XML</A> can describe arbitrary things such as people, events or objects.  It is layered on top of HTML and consists of a subject, a predicate, and an object. For example: <EM>“Jeremy Paxman” &lt;subject&gt; belongs to &lt;predicate&gt; journalists &lt;object&gt;</EM>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F1FEE8D8-6CEB-42B0-B60A-3A509573E724/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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