And some time ago that the concept of "web 3.0" or "semantic web" almost continuously round the Internet. After skepticism and distress calls caused by web 2.0 and the danger they embody social networks to make Internet content into something close to what can only access the components of a given community and, together with therefore calls attention to Internet gurus about how the use of 'gadgets' as the iPhone or xBox limit the use of the network and make it incompatible, it now imposes the concept of semantic network or web 3.0.
This concept, above the 2.0 portal features such as del.icio.us , magnolia and other primarily focuses on a refinement of the search and categorization of information. Before her, the social services seem far more labeling 1.0, since the promise of the semantic web is that when we use our search engine, say 'Erasmus Rotterdam', instead of reading both words and key terms and deploy a abundant number of entries that have little to do with the polygraph Renaissance, will read as two components of a name of a real person who lived at a particular time, which preserved a body of work and on which a critical mass determined. The change, for the growing number of researchers in the humanities that supports his work in the use of Internet resources and has great depth.
Anyway, today has given me to talk about all this because after having waited a few months I have received an invitation to try the beta of twine and it seemed interesting to give entry into this space and discuss my views minimally.
The first and most fundamental is that, for now, twine is in a beta state clearly. This means that many of the features which are very green still available and errors are enough. As if this were not enough, the number of users is still very low, although one of them has already made the move of all labels and other items to the platform.
The difference of twine with any of the things that we know so far is that rdf files generated twine on the searches that can establish links between what we want in a much more accurate, provided we have at our disposal a specific software with which we can manage this information in an appropriate manner, I am referring primarily to rdf gravity , while not ruled out that other applications will soon appear. The result is vaguely similar "to those who use mac-the way in which the form devonagent sorts the results and the links between them.
There are a number of features that I are enjoying it very much, as is the recommendation of users within the system that could share an interest and the existence of 'Twin' English-string, which may be related to your bookmarks or material you've uploaded. The platform is organized well, you have a user account and you can organize your content using 'twin', which function as a container for all materials you want to get there. The variety of materials is not limited to commentary and tagged links to websites, but allows downloads of entire websites with a description for each of the pages, documents in virtually any format, notes, images, video and more. As a user of these tools have greatly missed at least one tool in dealing with bibliographical references style citeulike , but I've sent an email to the developers of the platform to urge them to incorporate it as a trait of the whole.
Other features of interest for those like me, obsessed with giving an order to the complexity and sometimes anarchy that reigns in the network is the existence of intelligent labels that are distributed into categories. The presence of labels for people, places and organizations, hopefully more shortly, allow much more accurate searches.
All these are positive, I think, but alongside them there is something that has bothered me mostly in twine, and is related to copyright. It turns out that the company that develops twine, radarnetworks stands as the copyright holder of all content added to the platform, which I do not like much. I understand that such attitudes mainly carried out in order to preserve data and consistency of the entire amount of information, but it is absurd to pretend that people then add more than links. One of the developers already stated that we have in order to create creative commons license and the ability to add a proper copyright-style content to flickr , to understand, "of course until this functionality is in place, do not recommend anyone go any material beyond links and labeling. Too bad.
Anyway, I'm convinced that soon we will talk much more than twine this year that he still development. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in an invitation to try it, just send me an email and send it one of the invitations I have left.
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