If this is true and if it holds, this is hot stuff:
Google appears to be exposing semantic data in its searches. The concepts of semantic forms and semantic data is one that is close to my heart. I feel that genealogy applications should be more than just looking up articles - it should be a highly advanced way of organizing and managing data and rendering results.
It appears that Google is taking its usual search results and then parsing out the semantic data. Example: enter What was Karl's Marx's Birthdate in the search field and this is what you get:
Sweet, no? According to a post on Read, Write, Web, it appears that Google may have been performing this function for quite while but there have been recent refinements to results when you use a "subject - predicate - object" format for your searches.
Many web and tech gurus are predicting that semantic data is a core component of Web 3.0 and I agree. I also believe that this is where genealogy database software and websites will need to go: allowing users more than just looking up data. These applications and sites will need to offer the ability to see relationships between data, between people.
Google appears to be exposing semantic data in its searches. The concepts of semantic forms and semantic data is one that is close to my heart. I feel that genealogy applications should be more than just looking up articles - it should be a highly advanced way of organizing and managing data and rendering results.
It appears that Google is taking its usual search results and then parsing out the semantic data. Example: enter What was Karl's Marx's Birthdate in the search field and this is what you get:
Sweet, no? According to a post on Read, Write, Web, it appears that Google may have been performing this function for quite while but there have been recent refinements to results when you use a "subject - predicate - object" format for your searches.
Many web and tech gurus are predicting that semantic data is a core component of Web 3.0 and I agree. I also believe that this is where genealogy database software and websites will need to go: allowing users more than just looking up data. These applications and sites will need to offer the ability to see relationships between data, between people.
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Sweet...yes!
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