Ready for Web 3.0? ALPSP Seminar July 2010 David R Worlock

The tower as an image of change …

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 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 High Level Analytics Decision Support User Desktop 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 High Level Analytics Decision Support

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 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 and can be contacted atwww.davidworlock.com