Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]
In his “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein writes that the good way can only be conceived within the context of its goal. The direction Wittgenstein gives is solid - good is what works, what serves a certain purpose. Leveraging this Wittgenstein's proposition, I argue that the good text on the Web is the connected text. And by good
We, Linked Data
We, Linked Data are the ordinary records you might think of when imagining ways to keep, transfer and share information, knowledge or experience. Containing information is both our vocation and our avocation: that’s all we do. And to that, there’s something else, a little more wondrous than the things other data do. We, Linked Data, can, or
If Web Writing Had a Muse …
Does writing in cyberspace have a muse, and if yes, what does it look like? What is it that inspires web writing and how is a web text different from other forms of creative expression? And what if there was a bridge connecting the understanding of the Web as a giant repository of our collective memory, to
Knowledge Soup for the Soul
Thinking about how digital texts fit into the bigger picture of us building richly interconnected informational spaces to embed knowledge in them, I ended up before a knowledge soup. Knowledge Representation and a Soup It is in The Challenge of Knowledge Soup where computer scientist John F. Sowa writes about knowledge and how difficult it is to represent
The Semantic Networks We Write By
To Gideon Rosenblatt and David Amerland The metamorphoses of the written word and the media they exist and evolve within are ubiquitous and require us to rethink the way we conceive and craft content. If we want to use text to its fullest potential and not "drive a Boeing 747 on a highway" or "use the computer as a
The Semantic Web Through the Eyes of a Content Writer
What is your why for publishing on the Web? Is it traffic, engagement, visibility? Mine is data interoperability. I want to publish texts the data behind can be seamlessly combined with other data and “speaks” to computer programs in a way they can understand. To cut the geeky talk, my why for publishing on the Web has to
Weaving Linked Data into Texts with WordLift
Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, Content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift. Below are my notes and thoughts about the experience I had with WordLift, going down the rabbit hole of linking, linking and
Linked data
Linked data is essential to actually connect the Semantic Web. Or as the inventor of the World Wide Web sir Tim Berners-Lee describes Linked Data: It is the Semantic Web done right. Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on
The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is the next stage of the Web, as its founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee saw it. The Semantic Web Vision Let’s take a look at his vision, outlined in his book Weaving the Web, in 2000: I have a dream for the Web
SEO, Linked Data and Your Fridge Browsing the Web
The year is 2068. Your fridge is desperately trying to buy potatoes as per your robot cook’s request, whose algorithms have found the best recipe on the Web for a potato gratin. And just before you start entertaining the thought of having a wonderful dinner thanks to the Internet of Things (that is the Internet where everyday