The Intentional Web Initiative
What if we create a web of intentions to organize the web?
The intentional web initiative sets out to find solutions to empower site visitors with new tools to better define their intentions.
This website documents new innovations that have been created to further this initiative.
The Intentional Web is:
- Knowledge gathered about information from a specific viewpoint for a specific purpose (Otavo)
- Sites that evolve based on the needs of its visitors
- Standards that foster re-purposing of content (eg. Microformats, Dublin Core)
- Browsers that support user activities beyond simple browsing & RSS parsing (eg. Flock)
The Intentional Web is not:
- Raw static information
- AI based information retrieval
- Robot indexed information
- Intentional Web
- A knowledge space of gathered information from a specific viewpoint for a specific purpose.
Introducing the Intentional Web
Submitted by amanuel on Thu, 2005-12-08 12:51.
Introducing the next revolution on the net, The intentional web. In the past 10 years, innovations were focused primarily on improving content creation and publication.
The content consumer got benefits from these innovations as a side effect but never as a primary benefactor. Today, websites offer visitors with RSS feeds, custom portals, dynamic content, and microformatted content.
It is time we created a framework for the content consumer to deal with all these different forms of malleable content. This framework should have at its core the reason or intent of why the user is accessing the content.
With intent at the center, the content consumer can merge pieces of information found on many sites to precisely reflect what they want.
The intentional web is about creating new technologies for the content consumer. These innovations will change how we view and consume content on the web.
Let's get started.
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