Semantic Web enabling technology
Posted on September 5, 2008
Filed Under e-Business
The way we use the Internet has already changed… Web 2.0 is still talked about as if it’s something new… but it’s been around since just after the Web 1.0 bubble burst… perhaps even before.
Web 3.0 is all about a semantic web and how we use the web to access information. The web and some new web technologies have improved the way we do this.
With Semantic Web enabling technology like Apture, adding information is easier and enhances user experience to turn your website content into a hub of information. It lets content publishers find and incorporate information and multimedia directly into their web content. This is pretty useful and convenient.
But I think that a technology like Apture would be far more useful to users and a lot more effective in delivering information if the backend/admin interface was available to your website users but without the ability to add the content to your site. So if users on your website could use the backend interface for searching and accessing information by merely highlighting the text of interest then the user experience would be more comprehensive, convenient and useful.
Adding Apture to your website is easy enough. If you have a Drupal installation then you need the Apture module installed. If you have a WordPress site then you need the Apture plugin. I’m not gonna go into the specifics of setup and configuration because it’s pretty straight forward.
Once you have that installed/activated you need to register with Apture or login if you already registered to add your website/s where you would like to use the Apture technology. You will then get a bit of script that you need to include in the Drupal Apture settings if you are using Drupal or simply activate the plugin if you are using wordpress. That’s pretty much it to get you started with Apture.
The web is about access to information, whether it’s about something or someone, technologies like this will only make it easier and more convenient to access.
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