Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
The semantic web is four years old today!
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today’s web rather than starting from scratch or waiting for a “purer” markup language to bring us an “uppercase semantic web.”
While not entirely related, this brings to mind a post by a certain, long vanished, “guest editor” at disassociated, and an attempt to understand the then new web-buzzword semantics.
It’s all so clear to me now…
