Semantic Web is getting much more attention. Richard MacManus interviewed Tim Berners-Lee at MIT in July
Part 1: Linked Data - this is the base - "The Semantic Web and Linked Data connect because when we've got this web of linked data, there are already lots of technologies which exist to do fancy things with it. But it's time now to concentrate on getting the web of linked data out there."
Part 2: Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data, Wolfram Alpha, And More... - Tim Berners-Lee describes how search will be --
"So I think people will search using a search text engine, and find a webpage. On the front of the webpage they'll find a link to some data, then they'll browse with a data browser, then they'll find a pattern which is really interesting, then they'll make their data system go and find all the things which are like that pattern (which is actually doing a query, but they'll not realize it), then they'll be in data mode with tables and doing statistical analysis, and in that statistical analysis they'll find an interesting object which has a home page, and they'll click on that, and go to a homepage and be back on the Web again. "
Posted by Gwen at July 11, 2009 12:33 AM