The first clear guide to the Semantic Web and its upcoming impact on the business world
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Jul 05, 2010
Steve
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Kind of an interesting book.
Siegel puts a lot of faith in standards, but seems to grossly underestimate the amount of time it takes to develop them.
He also seems to feel standards will somehow make businesses want to cooperate with each other and with customers.
There are some interesting ideas in here, though. His main point, that we need some kind of central repository for our online life, is a good one, although he doesn't seem very concerned about the secur More...
Siegel puts a lot of faith in standards, but seems to grossly underestimate the amount of time it takes to develop them.
He also seems to feel standards will somehow make businesses want to cooperate with each other and with customers.
There are some interesting ideas in here, though. His main point, that we need some kind of central repository for our online life, is a good one, although he doesn't seem very concerned about the secur More...
Aug 30, 2010
Preston
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Disclosure: I am a computer scientist, and semantic web concepts are nothing new to me. They began to emerge in academia more than a decade ago, but have yet to gain wide-scale adoption for reasons I will not go into here. It was very clear within the first few chapters that my own idyllic vision of the semantic future departs somewhat from Siegel's predictions. My review is thus significantly skewed.
In terms of visioneering, this is a 5-star presentation. In "Pull: The Power of More...
In terms of visioneering, this is a 5-star presentation. In "Pull: The Power of More...
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Dec 31, 2011
Fred
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His definition of the Semantic Web is a broad one. If it furthers the understanding of data by machine (“semantic”) and it links in and out (“web”), it’s part of the semantic web. Ok, for the “semantic” part, Siegel also adds a more utopian requirement that “it needs to be tagged in a royalty-free format, governed by a nonprofit organization, that all software programs can understand”.
Pull does an impressive job of pulling together a number of trends around one common wish. It truly i More...
Pull does an impressive job of pulling together a number of trends around one common wish. It truly i More...
Aug 06, 2011
Lots of great examples and ideas for using Ontologies for applications involving Business Intelligence and sensor-based data. The goal is to create a semantic-focused Internet of Things. A great book by an ex-neighbor of mine.
Nov 23, 2011
Melih
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Good ideas, but about 100 pages too long.
Also it's much more of an aggregation of thoughts as opposed to anything new or groundbreaking.
Also it's much more of an aggregation of thoughts as opposed to anything new or groundbreaking.
May 25, 2010
Phillip
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Best explanation of why the semantic web matters and why it will change our lives I've read.
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May 15, 2010
Uwe
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The bible of the Semantic Web and a good introduction to VRM
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May 01, 2010
Paul
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Great book discussing the vision of the semantic web. The focus of this book is NOT on the technology of semantic web (hardly even touches W3C stack). The focus is on the idea of open data standards and how standardizing metadata communication will change the Internet as we know it. Great overviews of XBRL and other standardization efforts, as well as a ton of ideas for entrepreneurs. Highly recommend to IT managers as well as developers looking to understand some of the hype around the "
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Nov 06, 2010
John
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Great ideas, but the author glosses over or simply ignores the larger social and economic consequences of the world he envisions.
Nov 06, 2011
Bob
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This book reads like a sci-fi novel, but happens to be really practical at the same time. I'm not sure if I agree with all of the predictions made by Siegel, but I am enjoying the book.
Aug 28, 2010
This books describes how the Semantic Web will change the world in the near future. Very exciting :)
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