Wicked Cool Java

Chapter Summary

The techniques of semantic tagging that we've described in this chapter are quickly becoming popular in large published data sets, and in the next few years the Semantic Web will see an exponential growth. The latest news and website updates, along with what your colleagues are blogging, are already being gathered automatically by RSS aggregators and organized by category. In business-to-business transactions, common high-level ontologies are beginning to connect domains with completely different terminology in ways that were impossible before. For example, within highly specific scientific disciplines, new discoveries often use domain-specific terms to describe their findings. This information could lead to breakthroughs ...