Yahoo and Dapper Begin To 'Semantify' the Web

  • By Trent Batson
  • 04/02/08
Yahoo is beginning the process of indexing semantic elements on the Web, and Dapper announced the release of Semantify, a semantic mark-up tool for your own Web page. You "show" Semantify your page, point and click parts of your page you want to mark up, name them by using a naming protocol available to you at the site, get a chunk of PHP code that you paste into the header of your Web page, and voila! You've been Semantified. [For an interesting discussion of how to Semantify your Web pages quickly, see Marshall Kirkpatrick's ReadWriteWeb article, " Semantify -- Automate Your Semantic Web SEO in Five Minutes ."]

About the Author

Trent Batson, Ph.D. has served as an English professor, director of academic computing, and has been an IT leader since the mid-1980s. He is currently Co-Lead for the Web2ePortfolio Initiatve (W2eP), a Senior Associate with the TLT Group, and Editor of Campus Technology's Web 2.0 e-newsletter. batsontr@mit.edu

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