Posts Tagged ‘Web 3.0’
What is Web 3.0?
May 27, 2009
There has been alot of debate about what Web 3.0 is and when it will arrive. In a post on ReadWriteWeb titled, Web 3.0 or Not, There is Something Different About 2009, the debate continues. Also see the embedded slideshare. Some important trends in 2009 are:
- Open data
- Structured data -> smarter
- Filtering content
- Real-time
- Personalization
- Mobile (location-based, so you could say that’s smarter use of data too)
- Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects).
Linked data and Google snippets are noted as part of the trend. It sounds like mashups, web services and physical world integration are leading to a defacto Web 2.0 world. The implications for Health 2.0 will be the topic of a future post.
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Call for Papers – Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
January 17, 2008
Recently I came across two calls for papers. The first from the Journal of Medical Internet Research for a special issue on Medicine 2.0 with the lofty title, “How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research.” Some examples they are looking for include:
- Collaborative Filtering and recommender technologies
- Consumer empowerment
- Personal health records and Web 2.0
- New models of academic / scholarly publishing and peer review, e.g. what is the role of blogs and wikis?
- New models of e-learning.
Second is a Web 3.0 conference, “ 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services.” This is sponsored by a European/International group, HoIP (Healthcare over the Internet Protocol). More about this group in a future post. This conference will include topics such as:
- Semantic interoperability
- Machine learning approaches for semantic web
- Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
- Trust networks on semantic web
- Database technologies for semantic web
- Semantic knowledge portals
- Semantic web mining
Both opportunities reflect the growth interest in Web 2.0 and the Semantic web in health care. Everyone is encouraged to participate – isn’t that what Web 2-3 are all about?
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November 23, 2007
Web 3.0 – Hype or Reality
February 14, 2007
Now that the concept of Web 2.0 has been around for a while (in internet time), there is a growing buzz about 3.0. The Web 3.0 blog delivers a manifesto on the next level – the semantic web where Artificial Intelligence agents go beyond Web Services “…with the help of artificial intelligence and the integration of The Human Computing Layer, will allow us to cooperatively solve a class of problems normally reserved for specialized applications found in the areas of complex pattern recognition and high level semantic analysis.”
Heady stuff. Yet worth considering for healthcare. Intelligent agents and semantics (or taxonomy) is essential in taking ehealth to the next level. With all the advantages of Web 2.0 tagging and social networks, the volume of data is exploding and we need agents to semantically organize our knowledge whether it is about a personal illness or condition or one we are research a treatment for.
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