Chris Scott
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

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There’s no doubt about it: the Semantic Web is the hottest thing in the on-line industry at the moment. It’s all over the web, on the speaker circuits, in multitudes of product labs. On-line publishers are being told again and again that they need to get there content into RDF triplets and create linked data. One of the questions they should be asking is: why?

Okay, so some of the reasons why are obvious. Tim berners-lee’s vision of linked data tying the WWW together has inarguable and massive benefits. The potential for applications utilizing knowledge gleaned from RDF triplets is mind-boggling. One of the points Dame Wendy Hall made at last months ePublishing forum was that if publishers felt that they missed out by not getting on board with the World Wide Web as sharply as they would have, with hindsight, then now was their opportunity to make up for that. Don’t miss the boat twice was the message; start thinking about the Semantic Web now.

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