Thursday, October 16, 2014

Analyzing Web 3.0



Analyzing Information

The beginning of the Web aka Web 1.0 was the beginning of what we define now as the World Wide Web where one could simply retrieve information given. Web 2.0 then moves into the world of the social networking where data developed by individuals can be uploaded, downloaded, and shared across the web. Web 3.0 refers to the computer itself generating new information instead of the individual.
Studies show that students, when introduced to Web 2.0 and 3.0 devices and concepts in schools were very skeptical due to the feeling that their private lives were being assaulted.

When talking about Web 3.0, there is much talk about the “Semantic Web” which refers to a web with ‘meaning’ would act, according to Berners-Lee’s vision, like a series of connected databases where the information resides in structured forms. There are also layers of descriptions that add meaning that a computer can understand. Essentially, computers can synthesize data and draw their own conclusions based on the data given.

An example of this would be with watching trends in people’s shopping or browsing habits. Using the data collected from a visitor to a website. The computer can take that data and show Ads that, based on the data, would possibly be appealing to the buyer or provide information relevant to them.  Search engines also use this principle with tracking how people search and tailoring information to them based on where they live or their search patterns.

Finally, web 3.0 is working towards the concept of Metadata. This allows the integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources. This means that data spread across multiple sources can be combined together into a culmination of similar information for the user to use. This develops the concept of collaboration across different users.


In the context of education, more content can be used and covered, more relevant data can be accessed, and the structure of how content is covered will have to change. The focus us no longer on just finding the right answer, it is about finding problems that don’t even exist yet and finding solutions to them.

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