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| | Excerpt from: Into the MyST | | | March 22, 2004 | | |
Jim
Rapoza made some good points concerning the emerging
need for semantic content. He's probably only seeing the tip of
the iceberg in terms of semantic adoption. I believe that semantic tagging is
occurring at a much greater adoption rate than known (or detectable) simply
because if semantic systems work well, you hardly know what their architecture
is.
RSS is a good example - most of us refer to content syndication
as RSS. This is a technically incorrect description since it is used for
hundreds of implementations that include things as diverse as gas pump pricing
updates and knowledge syndication between enterprise portals; both are cases
where newsreaders and humans are not involved.
In my view, RSS has reached mainstream use in cases where it is not referred
to as RSS.
"The big obstacle to reaching the Semantic Web is that the semantic tags
need to be added to give meaning to all the content. Content providers need to
start using RDF and OWL when creating their content. As of now, few do because
few are aware of the benefits." -- Jim Rapoza
Indeed - we sell a product called MyST
SmartSpace™ that provides a Web services framework for extending
RSS (and RDF) feeds to Microsoft Office documents. MyST SmartSpace™ is a
service built on MySmartChannels™ that provides a unified information space for
collections of content such as RSS feeds. MyST SmartSpace™ makes it possible to
search and discover RSS items through Microsoft Office applications such as
Microsoft Word® and Microsoft Outlook®. RSS feeds are used to create a unified
information resource that integrates RSS items with Microsoft Office 2003 Smart
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