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Submission + - Open-unsolved Problems

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CexpTretical

on Thursday January 25, 2007 @09:54AM

CexpTretical writes: "Their are plenty of open or unsolved problems left for this generation. Open problems exists in almost every field of study. Wikipedia maintains a small list of them and at least one international group called the Union of International Associations maintains a database of open problems. These types of resources point us to what may be the noblest use or purpose of the internet, to empower everyone to contribute or add to that body of information we call human knowledge and understanding. Not just academia or governments but anyone can join the great conversation, the ultimate forum."

Submission + - Detecting Conflict-Of-Interest on the Semantic Web

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CexpTretical

on Friday December 08, 2006 @12:02AM

CexpTretical writes: "At the 15th International WWW Conference in Edinburgh Scotland, Refereed Track on Semantic Web accepted many thorough and interesting academic papers on semantic web research on subjects related to where the Web is in the Semantic Web? One such paper nominated for Best Paper Award, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection hits on the whole subject of validation and/or verification in the brave world of so called "Web 3.0" topologies/frameworks/architectures. The paper describes a "Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships"."

Submission + - Greatest task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation

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CexpTretical

on Sunday December 03, 2006 @04:51PM

CexpTretical writes: "An article in MIT's Technology Review about Web 2.0 problems fails to mention the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to fulfilling the dreams of the Semantic Web, i.e. assumptions about the validity of metadata or tagging schemes. We can add all of the metadata and/or tags we want to web resources but that does not mean that the "data about the data" honestly or accurately describes the resource or is "about the data" at all. This is why Google does not place much importance on the metadata already contained in html document headers in terms of search ranking etc. because it cannot be trusted and to validate it would require more effort than to search and index that data from scratch. Ensuring or verifying the validity of metadata would be a task equal to that of actually creating it but would have to be repeated continually. Hence all of the talk about "trusted networks" which then requires trusting the gatekeepers of those networks. Talk about "semantics"."

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