E-Content Magazine: Semantics Spotlight

The October 2008 issue of E-Content magazine (subscription required) has multiple stories on semantics and the semantic web. Featured stories include "Content Delivery Rides the Semantic Wave" and "How Semantic Tagging Increases Findability."

A quote from Silverchair's CTO Jake Zarnegar provided the conclusion for the latter article:

Silverchair's Zarnegar put it well: "Semantic tagging is best applied in areas when there is a qualitative 'best answer' to a user query (as opposed to a 'most popular' answer)...If you look at industries where semantic tagging (and structured data) have found a foothold (aviation, medicine, genetics, chemistry, and others) you'll see they are not areas where you want to go too far with iffy
information!"

These articles are great reads on the emergence of semantics.