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Linked data the successful successor to the semantic web?

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
November 15, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 08:47
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Facebook may have gotten metadata right, says Tyler Bell on O'Reilly Radar.   Facebook's OpenGraph Protocol is neither open nor a protocol but is an extremely straightforward and applicable standard for document metadata.

Where the semantic web collapsed - greater interest in standardization and semantic purity than ease-of-use - linked data may succeed.  

"Where the semantic web stumbled, linked data will succeed" - Tyler Bell on O'Reilly Radar

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