2008

Scraping and linked data

Wired Magazine gives scraping the buzzword treatment but remains clueless about the semantic web and linked data.

The latest issue of Wired has an article with the provocative title of The Data Wars about web sites built around data retrieved by “bots” doing “scraping”. I quote these because the article twists the terms a bit to make them and their subjects seem more dramatic, more cutting edge, and—you guessed it—more “Web 2.0”.