SEMANTIC EYE (SEYE) see what you've been missing

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The 'Brain' acts as the central control module and event management center. 'Tagging' (annotation or web site scrape) is performed here, a timeline may be created. From this point, SEYE is 'training', the system 'remembers' and the protocol module is consulted, recommending free or automated navigation.

For our purposes, the MindMap (Brain) is a start point and an end point, it can have branches and may contain annotations or website scrapes. You may apply any rules you wish to its construction, for example, I tend to put 'things to do' in a cloud on the right and 'things to think about' in a cloud on the left. It is an Ontology. 'Lenses' may be applied to illuminate data, facilitate protocol etc. there are many planned options.

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The Semantic Field (TagCloud) is configurable, it shares the Ontology/s and can be a control point for aggregation (RDF and non-RDF), the reasoner and the xml tree (publishing), it is a Content Management and Aggregation System. Ontology's may be loaded and unloaded, modified, shared and compared.

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Folks,

We've decided to show a sneak preview of some of the things we're cooking for the semantic web.

Dave,
CE - PSEM - RELAX SEO Services
www.relaxseo.com

Added: Better yet ... see the demo.

The live/unedited video DEMO is online: http://relaxseo.com/interfaceSemWeb/interfaceSemWeb.html
Semantic Web CMS

There is a Live portal to the tool on the website also.

We have progressed considerably from this phase, Lens Development, Quality Control of data and integration. Delays in committing this all-consuming research phase into the MindMap are unfortunate. We intend to improve documentation and maintenance of the MindMap in the coming weeks.

Dave,
www.relaxseo.com

“I think the ‘elephant in the room’ for SEO’s is that the semantic web brings more technology into the picture, you are exporting and importing data with a myriad of ways to operate on that data; There are simply more hooks and ladders. Our focus is of course on relevance; being found for the right reasons, which implies (in terms of the semantic web) inference layers and other filtering mechanisms.”

“Engineering web presence in the semantic web takes expertise ranging from artificial intelligence to the zitgist repository. We hope to see more people arrive on scene as qualified semantic web engineers. We all benefit from the new ideas, except for perhaps the search engines. The main flaw IMHO with current search engines is they presume to know what you want, the semantic web is a bit gentler about things as it offers relevant suggestions to help you decide.”

RELAX SEO Services; Semantic Web nuts and bolts.

Folks,

I notice that a lot of people look at the forum and admittedly, the content there is sparse.  Primarily because I added this forum for you, my visitors, to exchange ideas or ask questions.

One of the largest tasks around here is making sense of the thousands of proposals for the semantic web.

So I thought I would try to kick something off in the way of an assignment for you.  I will start by giving you 2 of my favorite links:

Advanced Knowledge Technologies
Sweet Tools (SemWeb)

This will keep anyone who is interested in applications for the semantic web busy for quite a while.

I would like to hear about your experiences with some of these products.  I personally have looked over many of them so maybe I or one of the staff can help with questions you might have.

It's a big job sorting this stuff out.  Let's put our heads together.

Dave - CE - PSEM
RELAX SEO Services

I’ve been reading various articles that make this claim lately and to some extent, I believe it is true. I don’t think it is time to abandon Organic Search strategies altogether but it is certainly time to consider some new methodologies. While we use ‘conventional’ SEO software packages everyday, we’ve come to rely on new web solutions, many are demonstrations of Semantic Web Technologies. Probably the most impressive offering is the OpenLink Software suite Virtuoso. There is a great demonstration of the OAT API and SPARQL from OpenLink that we use often, the OpenLink RDF Browser. We use the SVG graph feature to see how we can improve the way our linkage looks to Web 3.0 services.

We also consult the Semantic Data Extractor to improve our machine readability and Quintura is an essential part of our keyword discovery cycle. We develop tools ‘in house’ that compliment these technologies because we believe Web 3.0 is upon us. The interesting thing for us is that you hear so little about it in SEO circles, instead it’s the same old story, beg for links and work your meta tags. Admittedly, we are talking about emerging technologies and the final cut is far from complete but the movement towards xml and xslt seems to have gained momentum recently and we are finding new and useful transforms almost every day. Some web 2.0/3.0 methods are kinda messy, for example xFolk and eRDF and some are nice and clean like OPML auto-discovery and xslt’s.

I guess the best way to bring folks who are not familiar with ‘the revolution’ up to speed would be to recommend that you have a look under the hood of our home page; Website Promotion, go ahead, scrape the page. There, we demonstrate how FOAF, Dublin Core, OPML Auto-discovery, GRDDL and other machine readable formats can be used with HTML/XHTML. In many cases, it is as simple as calling a transform. In the beginning, we did most of it by hand, then we discovered Virtuoso which appears to tackle just about any machine readable format you can think of … effortlessly.

I know there are a lot of acronyms in this entry, this was intended as a top level document. We will drill down on these technologies in future installments and we will even discuss the Ontology project. For now, lets say that we rely on organic search to drive traffic Today but Semantic Interlinking is taking shape and makes proper sense in the effort to bring relevancy to web search.

For those who haven’t quite made the paradigm shift yet … we are just advocating a balance between human readable and machine readable web content, this idea is not new, consider meta tags as the first attempt at description, then think about how web services can improve the way interested people can find your web site.

To sum up, SEO is dying, there is no question of that, perhaps it is not quite dead yet but the web has the capability of discovering itself and Search Engines should take heed that their services will no longer be required one day. Unless your practicing SEO trickery, a short term strategy at best, there is great promise of relevancy for the future of web search.

Our advice is as always … offer real value, be honest with your site descriptions, take steps to ensure that your visitors find what they were looking for when they arrive … and embrace some new methods to expose your content to ‘the machine’.

Dave - CE - PSEM - RELAX SEO Services

Why register for our Blog? We have many exciting projects ongoing at RELAX SEO Services. Particularly, the SEO Ontology Project provides a framework for SEO problem solving in ‘Semantic’ Web space. When you register, you can request access to the wiki and contribute your ideas.

SEO MindMap to the rescue!: Fortunately we developed the XSEO MindMap. As I have stated before, it is our compass, roadmap and rear view mirror … but it is also an excellent starting point for the SEO Ontology project.

For those of you who subscribe to the feed, you know that I have issues with the proliferation of ancient SEO paradigms, they simply do not apply for Today’s Search Engine (Social Engine) efforts. The Semantic Web proposals go ‘hand in hand’ with SEO (XSEO) methodology … the focus here is on relevance, accurately describe your site, export in SemWeb formats, and you will see what I mean. I am not altogether against the so called SEO guru’s, when they talk about keyword research most of the information is still valid. It is all in the implementation.

A history: I do apologize for the sporadic posts, we are in research mode and cannot always keep pace with our documentation efforts, we are committed to open research but often we are not staffed to explain the details in a timely manner. We have a policy of openness and will always (eventually) publish our research. The Ontology is a better method than the MindMap in many ways and it is possible that in the future, we may forego the XSEO MindMap and just provide everything in ‘.OWL’ format.

The deliverables: We intend not only to provide the Ontology but a DBin ‘brainlet’ as well.

Topics coming soon: Our experience with Gnowsis, eRDF, Protege and Eclipse/Jena. We plan to describe in detail how we use these tools in our everyday SEO.

Not a client? Perhaps you should consider joining the MOST forward thinking SEO community in existence, we smash conventional ideas about SE placement. Hey - it’s great that you have paid an SEO for traffic and they have made your stats look lovely - but how many visitors actually purchased something?

Dave - CE - PSEM - RELAX SEO Services - www.relaxseo.com