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What the F*** is the Semantic Web

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Juan Sequeda Semantic Web Austin
Description You may have heard about it. You may or may not even understand what it is. You may be very skeptical or even call bullsh**. Or you may thing there is a potential. What am I talking about? The Semantic Web. The web that we are all used to is a web of documents where we search for things inside of documents. The Semantic Web enables a web of data, which makes the web appear as a giant global database. The Semantic Web is here and organizations such as the Drupal, New York Times, Best Buy, Thompson Reuters and even the US and UK government make part of this reality together with Google’s Rich Snippets and Yahoo’s Search Monkey. The Semantic Web is already changing the way we search, do SEO, find information, integrate data and create web applications. Surely, with all of the skeptics in the crowd, we expect this to be a lively discussion. We intend to interact with the audience as much as possible; so come prepared with questions. Let us prove to you why we see the future of the Web to be Semantic. By the end of this panel, all the intrigued people should leave with a clear idea of what the Semantic Web is and all the skeptics should drop their skepticism.
Questions
Answered
  1. Is the Semantic Web going to make search better?
  2. Does everybody need to agree on the same terms/vocabularies?
  3. Why has it taken so long to make the vision of the Semantic Web a reality?
  4. What are the existing tools that will facilitate existing web developers to be part of the Semantic Web?
  5. What are the new business opportunities?
Level Beginner
Category Web Standards
Tags data, Search, semantic web