29/03/2008: Cognition 0.1 Alpha 6

Tonight I’ve released another alpha version of Cognition, my semantic web parser. Changelog includes:

Microformats:
- Add option (disabled by default) to require <head profile> for microformat support. Microformat profiles are treated as opaque strings! Supports the following profiles:
  - http://purl.org/uF/2008/03/
  - http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard or http://purl.org/uF/hCard/1.0/
  - http://dannyayers.com/microformats/hcalendar-profile or http://purl.org/uF/hCalendar/1.0/
  - http://purl.org/uF/hAtom/0.1/
  - http://purl.org/uF/rel-tag/1.0/
  - http://purl.org/uF/rel-license/1.0/
  - No profiles required for rel-enclosure, adr or geo (yet).
- Support for hAtom, WebSlices.
  - In addition to hAtom 0.1, rel-enclosure is supported within hEntries.
- Improve include-pattern support to prevent some infinite loops.
GRDDL:
- Add option (disabled by default) to require for GRDDL.
- Add option to check profile URLs for…

09/03/2008: The Semantic Web

One of my current interests is the semantic web — that is, the push to move from publishing text on the Web to publishing structured data, which can actually be understood by computers (in so far as a computer can truly “understand” anything). By publishing information so that computers can understand it, you make the Web into a huge mine of interconnected data, free to be queried by everyone.

As an example of what I mean, searching for the keyword “train” on Google brings up results related to:

trains, as a form of transport
the band Train
IT training courses
toy trains

In the semantic web, the search engine and my computer would inherently understand the difference between these concepts, so if I wanted to know about the new Train album, I wouldn’t get any result related to locomotives!

What I’m particularly interested in is ways of embedding semantic data in ordinary web pages, so that we have a single web that can be…

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