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What does SearchMonkey have to do with the Semantic Web?

April 26, 2017Semantic web

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What does SearchMonkey have to do with the Semantic Web?

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First, SearchMonkey builds on Semantic Web standards. SearchMonkey can make use of metadata embedded inside web pages using either microformats, eRDF or RDFa. This metadata is picked up by the Yahoo! crawler and made available for all SearchMonkey applications. You can also develop data services to extract metadata from Web pages using XSLT or submit metadata directly to the search engine in the form of a data feed. In both cases the engine expects the data in the dataRSS format, which is also based on RDF. Second, we believe SearchMonkey will greatly contribute to building the Semantic Web. By exposing embedded metadata to developers, SearchMonkey will create the necessary motivation for content publishers to provide metadata using Semantic Web standards. SearchMonkey also makes it easy for developers to create metadata applications, significantly lowering the barriers of entry to the Semantic Web.