English 5365 - Internet Writing: Week 4 Post Topic

What topic(s) are you considering for the paper? Discuss one or more alternatives in detail and explain its relation to some of the concepts and theories we're reading (or are going to be reading).

One of the reasons that my employer gave for the move to an XML workflow was that it would eventually give us the ability to more semantically tag our files. My impression during our meetings was that semantic tagging meant more granular tagging, for example, tagging chemical names and database links. This does not seem to be the definition presented by W3C, which states, “The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.” I wonder if this is a misunderstanding on my companies’ part or if it is simply the way that they present it in the meeting.

Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila are reported as saying, “The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” This sounds more like the granular tagging that was mentioned in company meetings, tagging which states this is a compound name, etc.

For my paper, I would like to investigate what Semantic Tagging really is? And how this tagging fits in the Semantic Web? What makes it Semantic and what is the expected impact of Semantic Tagging on the web as we know it?