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not very semantic  August 03, 2008  Recently, I've had the
chance to learn about the current status of Web 3.0 aka the
"Semantic" web.  For those of you still working in Web 2.0, or
heaven forbid, Web 1.0, the Semantic web is a vision of what the
World Wide Web should be by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of much
of the ideas behind our modern day web technology.  I won't go
into a deep expose on the Semantic Web - you can easily Google
that up yourself.   Instead, I thought I'd give some impressions
of what I've learned so far:   RDF and its cousin RDF Schema is
an attempt to build on XML and XML Schema (conceptually) to
create a means by which knowledge (ontology's) is specified in
the Semantic Web.  RDF, like XML, is verbose and at times very
hard to read - odd for a supposedly human-readable format.  So
bad in fact, other more human-readable forms like Notation
(N3).  RDF is essentially a mechanical means to specify ontology
"graphs" or relation