The Semantic Web

About The Semantic Web – Part 2

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin in About

The Semantic Web and Your Website

So you got the idea in Part 1 (hopefully) if so read on and get to grips with how to get your website notced on The Semantic Web.

Your website at present just presents your information to the public. Generally your information is just typed in or is accessed from a database (like mySQL) that lives on your server. Nobody can access this data and quite rightly you dont want anybody getting access to it so that it can be hacked. Imagine if the data that is displayed on your web page could be accessed by others directly from you page. This is where the semantic web comes in. By using various formats in your html or php yo can make this information available to anyone. Lets have a look at what you need to do to amke this visible.

OK so you have heard of HTML and possibly PHP and ASP they are all methods of producing pages on the Internet. There is no change there but there is a new method based on XML that needs to be used (until some genus comes out with a Graphical method of doing it GUI).

There are three (at the moment) methods of providing information to the Semantic Web and Yahoo seem to be the only search engines grabbing the opportunity:

1. Microformats

• hAtom
• hCalendar
• hCard
• hReview
• XFN

2. RDF

3. Data RSS Feeds

**** Dont Panic****
I didnt know what these were either Ive found out and will tell you. Lets Look at:

Microformats

Im not going into the description of this but show you an example of its use:

Tags: HTML, PHP, Scripting languages, Semantic Web, XML