Transcript Slide 1 - DavidWorlock.com

Ready for Web 3.0?
ALPSP Seminar
July 2010
David R Worlock
The tower as an image of change
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The step as an image of
progress…
The Logic of Change
• Keyword searching in 1979
• Thesaurus to taxonomy
• Algorithms and Inference Rules
Information Services and
Solutions Value Model
User Desktop
High Level Analytics
Decision Support
Integrated Content Solutions
Mapping and Visualization
Abstracting and Indexing
Secondary Content - review articles, encyclopaedias, textbooks, monographs,
conference proceedings
Primary Research - journal articles, report, published correspondence, market research,
statistical reporting, ‘grey’ literature
Workflow in Research
• Researchers seek solutions
• Search must be cross-media
• Mark-up and metadata must respond to
the demands of the user
• Data mining , searching unstructured data
and data integration are vital to researcher
solutions
Where are we now – in the
aftermath of Web 2.0 ?
• Community – in full flood
• Workflow – proving more difficult than we
thought ?
• Vertical Search – vital , but did we fully
understand the implications ?
• Somewhere we forgot the drivers –
productivity , improved decision-making ,
cheaper costs of compliance , better risk
management – but our users did NOT
Web 3.0 : death by numbers
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Commoditization of content
Democratization of creation
Information overload
New publishing forms – from 3D to mobile
• BUT where is the MEANING in all of this ?
What do we need next ?
• improved search dynamics , better
taxonomy , more semantic recognition ?
• OR RDF , Triples , effective taxonomic
and inference rule environments ?
• And is there a gradual , step-by-step
approach – or a Big Bang ?
• It is not the strongest of the species that
survive , nor the most intelligent , but the one
most responsive to change
Charles Darwin
Who is Davd Worlock ?
• David R Worlock blogs at
• www.davidworlock.com and can be
contacted at
• [email protected]