Web 2.0 and Semantic Web are sometimes used synonymously, sometimes distinct. I’ve come in halfway through a presentation (missed speaker’s name) and taken away:
Web 2.0
- blogging
- AJAX
- small-scale mashups
- proprietary APIs
- niche vocabularies
- screenscraping
whereas Semantic Web is
- large-scale data linking
- comprehensive ontologies
- standard APIs
- well-defined data export
- data reconciliation
and suggested that we put them together as:
- blogging
- AJAX
- large-scale data linking
- standard APIs
- niche vocabularies
- well-defined data export
- data reconciliation
“There’s just one Web after all”