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Intentional semantic development involves explicit markup of text items. Most HTML documents today contain only text and links. Semantically marked up documents have explicit annotations about data objects, indicating them as entities such as people, places, dates, and so on. Relations (links) have explicit meanings. | Intentional semantic development involves explicit markup of text items. Most HTML documents today contain only text and links. Semantically marked up documents have explicit annotations about data objects, indicating them as entities such as people, places, dates, and so on. Relations (links) have explicit meanings. | ||
In [http://www.foaf-project.org/ FOAF], we can indicate "me" links on our home page that indicate another representation of ourselves. We can indicate links to friends, business associates, and organizations. It quickly becomes apparent that decentralized Facebook sites | In [http://www.foaf-project.org/ FOAF], we can indicate "me" links on our home page that indicate another representation of ourselves. We can indicate links to friends, business associates, and organizations. It quickly becomes apparent that decentralized Facebook sites will be enabled, where individuals can publish their information wherever they like, using whatever licenses they like, and sites like Facebook can provide their own views of these webs of data. | ||
Standard RSS and Atom syndicated feeds are also gaining rich data, including geo location, that allow third party sites to create views based on distributed data. | Standard RSS and Atom syndicated feeds are also gaining rich data, including geo location, that allow third party sites to create views based on distributed data. | ||