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The heavyweight options are systems such as RDF and Topic Maps. They provide a complex interlinked way to describe arbitrary data. Today they are only used for specific projects, but as their use grows we can expect the web to become more interlinked, allowing an endless assemblage of information using the best references.
The heavyweight options are systems such as RDF and Topic Maps. They provide a complex interlinked way to describe arbitrary data. Today they are only used for specific projects, but as their use grows we can expect the web to become more interlinked, allowing an endless assemblage of information using the best references.
The two approaches are called bottom-up (intentionally annotated) and top-down (mining/scraping) in [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rdf_semantic_web_apps.php this article].


One way to 'intentionally' create semantic data is Semantic Mediawiki.
One way to 'intentionally' create semantic data is Semantic Mediawiki.