Web3

Welcome to the Networked Planet web3 blog. This blog is dedicated to all things web3. For us at Networked Planet web3 is all about the publishing online of structured semantic data in a way that can be discovered and usefully processed by both humans and machines. This is not the semantic web, but a web of joined up structured information.

Semantic Technologies such as RDF and Topic Maps are great standards for the representation of statements about a subject, what we really are looking forward to are protocols and conventions that allow fragments of information to be published and connected.

As Networked Planet we have been doing a lot with the ISO13250 Topic Maps standard. This standard and our products have been used in many applications to improve the way in which information is organised and accessed. Our next goal is to take many of the ideas and concepts that have been so successful within enterprises into a more global space.

Over the coming months we will be releasing services, presentations, white papers and products that support the goal of a Web of linked data.

Yesterday at the Topic Maps 2009 conference in Oslo I gave a presentation called 'A Vision for a Topic Maps World'. In this presentation I summarised some of the key successes of Topic Maps and then looked forward to how Topic Maps can work on a more global scale.

One of the key things I presented was a concept for a Subject Identity Resolution service, a kind of DNS for subjects and representations of statements about subjects.

The full presentation can be found here.

We'll be blogging more about the Subject Identity Resolution Service over the coming weeks.

Linked here is a white paper that provides a vision and introduction to web3.

The summary below provides an introduction...

In the past 20 years, the Web has developed from a niche technology to a mass-media providing new forms of communication and interaction between people. Web 1.0 was a technical platform - a common set of protocols and formats that allowed machines to communicate and present information from a remote server to a local user. Web 2.0 used the technical platform of Web 1.0 to build more interactive web sites where users contribute and share content and become creators and owners of content rather than passive consumers.

Web 2.0 has reached the limits of what can be achieved on the technical platform of Web 1.0; new technologies must be put in place to provide a fundamentally new technical infrastructure, or platform, to enable the next generation of innovative web applications. Key to this Web 3.0 platform is a set of protocols and formats that allow the communication of subjects and people's perceptions of those subjects between computers, and that enable new applications to be built that allow users to create, share and integrate information and knowledge seamlessly...