Digital Asset Management

Last week I went to the Semantic Conference in San Jose. Before I went there I was pretty new to the whole Semantic Web, so the conference gave me a chance to discover some interesting things.

One of the people I met at the conference is Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research. He is working onSearchMonkey, which is a service offered byYahoo! that lets developers and site owners represent search results in a more appealing way. Allowing site owners to create more enhanced results can give a boost to the relevant traffic to the website.

A SearchMonkey application consists of structured data and a PHP script. The data may be either cached or loaded at runtime. A number of ontologies are available to be used in these applications. One of those is the GoodRelations ontology by Martin Hepp (discussed by Stijn in a previous blog post). Although the entire Semantic Web movement has goals that go far beyond this kind of functionality, it is something quite helpful, and I am curious to see how it evolves.

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