Two posts from the Kosmix Blog about Semantic Web.
Basically, Digvijay Lamba observes - "that Wikipedia can provide a global and ever improving vocabulary bloggers and other content creators to provide richer context around what they write." - Wikipedia can help with identifying the entitities and providing context.
Why Wikipedia Can Make a Giant Leap Ahead for the Semantic Web
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web – Part 2
The future:
"In the end, we have to take baby steps in our goal for rich semantic annotation of Web content. Automated tools are already attempting to do this for content that has already been created. Will the automated methods improve fast enough that there will never be a need for content creators to annotate? Or will having a vocabulary and an easy method of annotation give enough advantage to the content creators that we will see widespread adoption? My guess is that the answer lies somewhere in between."
Posted by Gwen at October 30, 2009 12:55 PM