This week I have been learning about the ‘semantic web’, what it is and what it has helped to achieve.
Tim Berners-Lee is a name that has frequently popped up during my research; he is listed as one of the inventors of the World Wide Web. His vision was not only to create the web but to find a way in which knowledge was organised into data.
The video below shows a short introduction into the semantic web.
The Sematic Web is the way in which the internet is organised; this can be something as small as a tag on a blog, a hashtag at the end of a tweet or even linking between websites.
This also links in with data journalism – a type of journalism of which journalists search through facts, figures and archives to find or support their story. Data journalism has increased a lot in recent years and big stories such as the MP expenses scandal have come from data journalism.
Infographics are a way in which these statistics can be set out to make them more aesthetically pleasing and a lot easier to read and understand.
Infographics are popular within magazines as an easy way to give readers a lot of information or figures from a survey they have carried out.
Below are some links I used and that will also help you understand more on this topic:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/1999/nov/24/internet.guardianweekly
http://www.coolinfographics.com/
http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/
http://mashable.com/category/infographics/
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