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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Web 3.0 is here to stay, HP enabled

That was not a typographically error. I meant Web Three Point Zero! What is it? That's the next generation of Internet possibilities.

Web 2.0 made it easier to surf the Net and set up some really fabulous interactive and visual websites. Web 3.0 is set to distinguish itself by making it possible to find more information faster.

How is that possible? Well, the present cyberspace is full of all kinds of data in diverse and incompatible formats. So, a search on a search engine may turn up only a limited amount of information for the researcher.

Web 3.0, championed at present mainly with Hewlett Packard technology, makes it possible to convert all the conflicting data formats into a seamless and interchangeable whole. Imagine the possibilities:

[...If the saying “knowledge is power” is true, Ingenta is indeed an extremely powerful organisation. The Oxford-based small business has over 20 million documents stored in the IngentaConnect research platform. These are viewed by over 30 million users each month.

Ingenta is able to store this huge amount of data using its revolutionary Metastore. This is supported by Jena, an open-source Java framework recently developed by HP’s Semantic Web Programme. Smaller businesses such as Ingenta are beginning to use Semantic Web technologies to share mammoth amounts of information with customers and other companies. In contrast, early-adopting enterprises are using the technology to make sharing massive volumes of internal information much simpler.

For Martin Merry, Semantic Web Research Manager at HP Laboratories in Bristol, unlocking the potential of the Internet is an exciting challenge.

“Our Semantic Web research aims to bring the Web to its full business potential, for example by contributing key technology pieces such as Jena,” said Merry.

“It is gratifying to see the technologies we develop being put to effective commercial use, and we were impressed by Ingenta’s achievements in utilising Jena".

Merry sees a fantastic range of business benefits stemming from the Semantic Web. For example, he says many businesses today have trouble exchanging important supply chain information because it is formatted in different codes. This causes delays when ordering goods that disadvantage both parties. The Semantic Web can solve this issue because it easily integrates information from many sources. It converts data to a Resource Description Framework (RDF) format to enable interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. This gives businesses access to new information streams that previously they did not have the capability to read.

Better decision-making

The technology will dramatically improve a business’s access to information, while greatly reducing the time and effort required to access data.

“Any job where a worker has to process information will be sped up,” said Merry. “HP’s Semantic Web tools can convert multiple information streams to one format so they can be read, assimilated and interpreted together.

“And as business needs change, information sources can be added or removed quickly, without major disruption – whereas today this work can take months,” added Merry...]

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Greenville, Rhode Island bakery owned by the Cavanagh family, which uses the plant to produce church communion bread from just water and bread. That business is known to produce about 850 million sacramental wafers annually and to supply 80% of the Holy Communion bread used in American, Australian, Canadian, and British churches. The only middlemen in the supply chain are nuns living in convents! Now they want to expand to West Africa with their Christian sacramental ware for Pentecostal, Catholic, 'New Wave', and Orthodox church offerings. I make reference to the so-called New Wave churches - my term for those churches that broke away from the orthodoxy of the Protestant fold, just as the latter roke off from the Catholic church by virtue of the exploits of Martin Luther centuries ago. Many new-wave and other church goers in the generally undeveloped West African subregion of Africa pay more to religious organizations in monthly tithes and offerings than they do to their government in personal income and value added taxes. Now, that last fact is quite interesting because it is an admission that a bakery in Rhode Island has seen a huge market in the center of Black Africa for small white perfectly laminated and non-crumbly holy wheat bread, reportedly costing "less than a penny" apiece, for the use of both the bible-reading and the bible-believing religious organizations. However, the picture from the Cavanagh's factory floor speaks volumes, in my own opinion, about the need for the company to watch its business ethics and to treat all customers equally irrespective of location, creed, or other discriminatory demographic information or criteria. So, I just hope and pray that the wafers falling off the conveyor belt and by the way side are not destined for West Africa and that the actual wafers delivered will be wheat bread and water, and not just glutamate-free bread and 'pure' water, if you get my point, even if so requested by some shady, greedy, and unethical businessmen over in West Africa. Posted by Okonkwo O. Awa on Sunday, December 28, 2008.

In the summer of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI (BXVI) encouraged The Church to reach out to young people using new technologies, as he himself learned to send out cellphone text messages to the faithful. So in obedience, a tech savvy evangelizing Catholic priest got some help from a Web designer in order to write all the daily books of prayers into a low-cost computer software application downloadable onto the iPhone. Rev. Paolo Padrini's iTunes prayer book was officially approved by The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications in December 2008. Of course, all proceeds from the electronic prayer book venture will go to charity. Speaking of charitable behavior, The Holy See has seen it fit after 400 years to honor Galileo Galilei in 2009 as the "patron" of the non-mutual exclusivity of the faith versus reason dichotomy. That is very appropriate in this age of new technology, even though The Church still smarts from its error of judgment in calling the famous astronomer a heretic after he publicly embarrassed The Church by reporting that his scientific observations in Astronomy with his unique telescope had led him inexorably to believe that the Earth actually revolved around the sun, in direct opposition to the teaching of The Church at the time that Planet Earth was the center of the universe. In seeking to paint the Church in a new light of worldly knowledge by distancing itself from a past of imbibing pure dogma, The Vatican may have ventured to cross the final frontier and boundary between Science and Christianity by acknowledging recently that there could be life on planets other than the Earth! Posted by O. O. Awa on Wednesday, December 24, 2008.
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