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An Introduction to the Semantic Web … for noobs

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Melies color Voyage dans la lune, by Georges Méliès, Public Domain.

Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar just posted an entirely non-technical video explaining the Semantic Web. The video and all of its source material are available under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license for sharing and remixing. Quote from the video:

If you can open a web browser, you can understand the Semantic Web.

CC has been using Semantic Web technologies for the machine-readable layer of its licenses from the beginning and we’ve recently migrated much of our server-side infrastructure to these technologies.

Posted 25 December 2007