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Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web

✍ Scribed by James Hendler; Jennifer Golbeck

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
119 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1570-8268

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✦ Synopsis

The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, much of that effect is delivered through social linkages realized via social networks online. Unfortunately, the associated semantics for Web 2.0 applications, delivered through tagging, is generally minimally hierarchical and sparsely linked. The Semantic Web suffers from the opposite problem. Semantic information, delivered through ontologies of varying amounts of expressivity, is linked to other terms (within or between resources) creating a link space in the semantic realm. However, the use of the Semantic Web has yet to fully realize the social schemes that provide the network of users. In this article, we discuss putting these together, with linked semantics coupled to linked social networks, to deliver a much greater effect.

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