Sean Golliher needs to take his lantern, to search for an honest engineer at the W3C.
Sean writes in Google Just Hi-jacked the Semantic Web Vocabulary:
Google announced they’re rolling out new enhancements to their search technology and they’re calling it the “Knowledge Graph.” For those involved in the Semantic Web Google’s “Knowledge Graph” is nothing new. After watching the video, and reading through the announcements, the Google engineers are giving the impression, to those familiar with this field, that they have created something new and innovative.
While it ‘s commendable that Google is improving search it’s interesting to note the direct translations of Google’s “new language” to the existing semantic web vocabulary. Normally engineers and researchers quote, or at least reference, the original sources of their ideas. One can’t help but notice that the semantic web isn’t mentioned in any of Google’s announcements. After watching the different reactions from the semantic web community I found that many took notice of the language Google used and how the ideas from the semantic web were repackaged as “new” and discovered by Google.
Did you know that the W3C invented the ideas for:
- Knowledge Graph
- Relationships Between things
- Naming things Better (Taxonomy?)
- Objects/Entities
- Ambiguous Language (Semantics?)
- Connecting Things
- discover new, and relevant, things you like (Serendipity?)
- meaning (Semantic?)
- graph (RDF?)
- things (URIs (Linked Data)?)
- real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things (Linked Data?)
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Really? Semantic, serendipity, graph, relationships between real-world entities?
All invented by the W3C and/or carefully crediting prior work.
Right.
Good luck with your search Sean.