The Metaphors of the Net

I. The Genetic Blueprint decade after the invention of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee promoting the "Semantic Web". Until then, the Internet is a repository of digital content. It has a rudimentary inventory system and very crude data location services. As a sad result, most of the content is invisible and inaccessible. Moreover, Internet manipulates strings of symbols, not logical or semantic propositions. In other words, compare the values of the network, but do not know the meaning of the values that drive that. E 'in a position to interpret the strings, to infer new facts, deduce, induce, deduce, or otherwise to understand what he is doing. In short, do not understand the language. Run an ambiguous term with any search engine and these shortcomings are evident. This lack of understanding of the semantic foundations of its raw material (data, information) prevent applications from databases and sharing resources and feeding each other. Internet is discrete, not continuous. It resembles an archipelago, with users jumping from island to island in a frantic search relevancy.Even visionaries like Berners-Lee does not provide an "intelligent Web". They are simply intended to enable users, content creators and web developers assign descriptive meta-tags ( "name of the Hotel"), fields, or strings of symbols ( "Hilton"). These meta-tags (arranged in semantic and relational "ontologies" - lists of metatags, their meanings and how they relate to each other) will be read by various applications and allow the process associated strings of symbols correctly (place word "Hilton "in the phone book under" hotels "). This will make information retrieval more efficient and reliable and the information retrieved is bound to be more relevant and capable of processing the highest level (the statistics, the development of heuristic rules, etc.). The fare is HTML (referred to whose labels with visual appearance and content indexing) to languages such as DARPA Agent Markup Language, OIL (Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language), or even XML (whose tags are concerned with content taxonomy, document structure, and semantics). This would bring the Internet closer to the classic library card catalogue.Even in its current, pre-semantic, hyperlink-dependent phase, the Internet brings to mind "the seminal work of Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene" ( OUP, 1976). This is doubly true in the semantics Web.Dawkins suggested to generalize the principle of natural selection to a law of survival of the block. "A stable thing is a set of atoms which is permanent or common enough to deserve a name." He then proceeded to describe the emergence of "Replicators" - molecules that have created copies of themselves. The replicators that survived in the competition for scarce raw materials were characterized by high longevity, fecundity, and copying fidelity. Replicators (now known as "genes") constructed "survival machines" (organisms) to protect them from the vagaries of an increasingly harsh environment.This highly reminiscent of the Internet. Things "stable" web pages are coded in HTML. They are replicators - to create copies of themselves every time their "web address (URL) is clicked. The HTML for a web site can be viewed as" genetic material ". It contains all the information necessary to render the page. And just as in nature, the higher the longevity, fecundity (measured in links to the website from other websites), and loyalty, copy the HTML code - the greater your chance of survival (as a web page) . Replicator molecules (DNA) and replicator HTML have one thing in common - they are both packaged information. In the context of the case (the right biochemical "soup" in the case of DNA, the proper software application for HTML ) - this information generates a machine "survival" (agency or a web page). The Semantic Web will only increase the longevity, fecundity and copying fidelity or the underlying code (in this case, the oil or XML instead HTML). By facilitating many more interactions with many other websites and databases - the underlying code "replicator" to ensure "survival" of "their" web page (= its survival machine). In this analogy, " DNA website (oil or XML code) contains "single genes" (semantic meta-tags). The whole process of life is to deploy a kind of semantic Web.In a paragraph

Follow the Olympic Torch Relay

The Olympic flame is one of the most important symbols of the Olympic Games. You can follow the route of the flame from Olympia to the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin, Italy. Along the way you can learn about Olympic history, geography and cartography skills.Lighting the flame was an important part of every Olympic opening ceremony since it was first used in Berlin in 1936. The idea of keeping a flame lit at the Games first used by ancient Greeks Olympia.A few months before the opening of the Games, the ceremony was held at the site of the original games, the ancient sanctuary of Olympia. An actress dressed as a ceremonial priestess, in the form of the ancient Greeks, lights the torch via the same technique used in the original Games.She uses a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of sunlight. The parabolic mirror has a curved shape. When you're taking toward the sun, the curvature focuses the rays of a single point. The energy of the sun creates a lot of heat. The priestess holds a torch in the center of the parabolic mirror, and the heat becomes the fuel of the torch, sparking a flame.If the sun do not shine on the day of the lighting ceremony, the priestess can light the torch with a fire which was lit on a sunny day before the fire ceremony.The place in a pot over a fire altar in the ancient Olympic stadium, which is used to illuminate torch.For first runner of the Winter Games, the relay actually begins at the monument to Pierre de Coubertin (the man who founded the modern Games in 1896), located near the stadium. Read this here.When light years away from the flame of the torch is first lit, the relay starts the flame is carried by the torch to its final destination. Although usually performed by runners on foot, other modes are also used. For air transport, the flame takes refuge in a safety lamp, like a miner's lamp. At night, the flame is kept in a special light cauldron.The the opening ceremony of the Olympics is the entrance of the Olympic flame into the stadium. The final torchbearer is always a citizen of the host country whose identity is kept secret until the last torchbearer moment.The give final lap around the stadium before lighting the huge cauldron with the Olympic flame. The doves were released as a symbol of peace, where the Olympics should have place.The focus is on the duration of games.You can follow the torch to the official website of the torch. There, you can read the diary of relays, with daily updates on the progress of the torch. You'll find video, a photo gallery and a detailed description of journey.You can print a map of Italy and trace the path themselves. The maps are available at the University of Texas, site, or that children can enjoy Italian Embassy.Younger development bring a lantern. The kids dltk website uses construction paper while the torch of family craft consists of a hollow tube of paper towel and tissue paper.Traveling Olympia to Turin, the Olympic flame ends its journey with the ignition Olympic torch. In celebration of the Games, the flame goes out. But this is not the end. On the contrary, it signifies the start of preparations for the upcoming Olympics Games.Caren Bugay has lots of tips and resources to improve education for children. Find more ideas, including how to use current events and movies as learning experiences, to http://www.helpyourchildrenlearn.com.

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