The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1221553, abstract = {There is a common perception that there are two competing visions about the future evolution of the Web: the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 visions. We believe that the technologies and core strengths of these visions are complementary, rather than in competition. In fact, both technologies need each other in order to scale beyond their own strongholds. The Semantic Web can learn from Web 2.0 focus on community and interactivity, while Web 2.0 can draw from Semantic Web infrastructure to facilitate things like mashups. In order to demonstrate the complementarity of the two ideas, we outline a semantic weblogs vision in this paper that enhances a Web 2.0 scenario with semantic technologies. This vision can be realized in the short-term and shows clear advantages of the Semantic Web in the open field. We discuss the challenges and highlight open issues that arise from this vision, such as caching in the presence of dynamically generated pages. As a result, we outline research questions and implementation issues that will be of high relevance in the near future and finish with some thoughts about the future web ecosystem.}, author = {Anupriya and Markus and Thanh and Denny}, citeulike-article-id = {1221553}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www2007.org/paper777.php}, keywords = {semantic, web20}, posted-at = {2007-04-12 06:57:01}, priority = {2}, title = {The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web}, url = {http://www2007.org/paper777.php} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1221553 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1221553 N2 - There is a common perception that there are two competing visions about the future evolution of the Web: the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 visions. We believe that the technologies and core strengths of these visions are complementary, rather than in competition. In fact, both technologies need each other in order to scale beyond their own strongholds. The Semantic Web can learn from Web 2.0 focus on community and interactivity, while Web 2.0 can draw from Semantic Web infrastructure to facilitate things like mashups. In order to demonstrate the complementarity of the two ideas, we outline a semantic weblogs vision in this paper that enhances a Web 2.0 scenario with semantic technologies. This vision can be realized in the short-term and shows clear advantages of the Semantic Web in the open field. We discuss the challenges and highlight open issues that arise from this vision, such as caching in the presence of dynamically generated pages. As a result, we outline research questions and implementation issues that will be of high relevance in the near future and finish with some thoughts about the future web ecosystem. TI - The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web KW - semantic KW - web20 AU - Anupriya AU - Markus AU - Thanh AU - Denny UR - http://www2007.org/paper777.php ER -