[Geowanking] Web 3.0 may be here

[Joe Germuska]

On May 4, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Eric Wolf wrote:

>> automation of the still largely manual creation of ontological  
>> relationships.
> After all, I associate bonnets with babies - not with
> cars. A semantic search engine based on automated ontologies is more
> likely to entirely miss what I'm actually looking for.


Nothing too deep here, but one of the other interesting tidbits from  
that Wolfram interview I cited previously was that they use GeoIP as  
part of their parsing: this was specifically described in the context  
of "rabbits: pets or food" and the goal of not shocking Americans by  
assuming nutritional information while recognizing that in much of the  
world, bunnies are for eating.

But really, is Geowanking the place for a big discussion of ontology  
and semantic web theory? Especially in the context of pre-released  
software?

J

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