Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: the State of Structured Search
Jeff Dalton’s notes on a panel discussion moderated by Daniel Tunkelang. The panel consisted of Andrew Hogue (Google NY), Breck Baldwin (alias-i), Evan Sandhause (NY Times), and Wlodek Zadrozny (IBM. Watson).
Read the notes, watch the discussion.
BTW, Sandhause (New York Times) points out that librarians have been working with structured data for a very long time.
So, libraries want to be more like web search engines and the folks building search engines want to be more like libraries.
Sounds to me like both communities need to spend more time reading each others blogs, cross-attending conferences, etc.