This interview with Eric Miller, President of Zepheira was conducted by Golda Velez. http://zepheira.com

SR: Eric, let me ask your advice. The Semantic Web is interesting, exciting, promising. So say I’m a developer, how do I get involved with it? Or suppose I have a tech company, how do I get work in this field?

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Part I : Advice from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks at SemTech 2008. Radar Networks is the creator of Twine, a promising semantic-social-networking collaboration app.

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I took a look at Nova Spivak’s Twine demo this week. One of those ouch! moments when you realize that the thing you’ve been trying to build on and off for a couple years just got done better, slicker and faster. I’ve still got a few things I’d do differently – I’d focus more on annotating each URL and using that as a concept address for notes, and provide a simple way for webmasters to get a feed of all the comments users make about their pages. But the basic idea of a bookmarklet that lets you add URL’s as you surf and organize them for yourself and others as you go – that is all in there.

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On my hunt to find real-life implementors of semantic technologies,
preferably ones who have finished projects that impact lots of
non-computer people, I’ve now had an extensive interview with a group
that fits that bill.

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I love RDFa. RDFa is cool. If you haven’t tried it, try it, you’ll like it – its just a really simple way to embed RDF statements in a valid HTML doc using a couple properties like about= and rel= and property=. Check out the primer which is pretty well written and published last October at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/

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So I’m researching an article on semantic technologies for web publishers, for which I’ll probably be paid about one percent of my usual consulting rate. But, the perks can’t be beat – I get to talk to really cool people who want to spend time explaining their stuff.
Right now I’m trying to find out who exactly is using semantic technologies outside of the semweb world. I want to find a bureaucrat, a small business owner, a non-software engineer, who can tell me what is great about some semantic-enabled application. Or at least one concrete benefit that is there today.

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