Current job feed has limited structured information:
Currently, job feed is a specific type of RSS feed. Because RSS specs define only a small number of attributes, it’s difficult to for RSS feed to capture every attributes of job information in separate fields. In stead, RSS feed usually combines everything in one job opening into a single field – the “description” field. Obviously, job data presented in RSS feed lacks the structure necessary for field-based search and comparison.
New RDF feed gives the detailed structure for job opening information:
I believe ontology and semantic web standard language RDF provide the perfect answer for job feed. The basic deal is simple: define an ontology for representing job opening information and then use it to encode job data in RDF format. Each job opening data exists as a RDF object with an unique URI. RDF job feed carries one or more such RDF objects for job opening data.
Because the semantic web is taking off, I believe job feed in RDF format will be automatically consumed by more and more job search engines. This means in the near future employers may only need to provide RDF job feeds for any new jobs. Once the job feed is created, the job openings will immediately become available to everyone on the web and they can be automatically compared to other openings in details.
Ufeed provides free RDF job feed service:
To enable employers to take advantage of the semantic web, last week I launched a new free online data feed service on the home page of web2express.org web site. You can use it to easily create job feeds in RDF format in addition to RSS2.0 format. Your feeds are immediately available to all search engines, which can acquire the RDF data and provide smart search on your job openings.
- AJ
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Data feed, RDF data resource, product feed, news feed
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News
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I’m glad to announce a new tool – unified data feed (Ufeed) now available on web2express.org. This tool allows individuals and organizations to create data feeds for products, news, events, jobs and studies on the web. At the same time, the data you enter also exist as semantic data resources that you and your audience can reuse across the web. When you visit web2express.org, this free data feed service is presented to you by default. You can simply sign up, which gives you a private workspace to create and manage your data feeds.  To provide the data feeds on your web site, simply insert the feeds’ URIs into your web pages.  All of the data feed and RDF data resources on this web site are open to the public.Â
Developing a practical tool/service for people to open their data on the semantic web is one of the main goals web2express.org has been pursuing as an open lab. The first semantic publishing tool released last year is a plugin for Wordpress blogger. Many people have checked out the demo for the web2x semantic blogging. However, it requires installing the software on user’s web server, which is a big hurdle for many people.  I feel the best tool for many users would be a free online service – no need to install and maintain any software. Thus, the unified data feed online service is born.
The Ufeed service is designed to ease the pain of many individuals and small organizations that have not yet been able to provide data feeds. Web feed is becoming an increasingly important marketing channel. I hope you will find Ufeed a useful service – enabling you to regain the competitive edge in the current evolution of data web.Â
Enjoy feeding your data!
-AJ
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[::Content::]One immediate application of the emerging semantic web is for optimization of search engine marketing. How?
- Publishing your data, product information or job openings in semantic format on your own web site provides additional materials that increases the chance for your audience to find the information they want. New semantic engines will index your semantic documents and make them accessible to everyone, which means more traffic to your site.
- Semantic data format makes discovery, sharing and even reuse of your data more effective – one of the main promises the semantic web holds. Your information can be searched and ranked not entirely by page popularity but the relevant content. This is crucial for new companies or young researchers because they usually lack popularity. However, their products or researches are highly relevant within their own, sometimes narrow, fields.
- Once your information exists as semantic data on your web site, they are good for almost every purpose. For one, you don’t need to submit the data such as product info or job openings to a long list of search engines or directories. All search engines should be able to crawl your data and understand the semantic data so well that they can put these data in whatever formats their search engines are running on.
How can a company start to take advantage of this new approach of SEO?
- Find a semantic web publishing tool and start publishing product information or job openings in semantic format on your own web site. Make sure the tool implements a semantic format (most likely an ontology) that is openly developed by the open source communities.
- One such tool is web2x semantic web publishing tool, which is openly developed in supporting the scientific publishing task force of w3c HCLS group. The tool is freely available on this web site. The semantic search engine on this web site will be able to index your semantic data the next day you publish them.
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search engine optimization, search engine marketing, semantic web, ontology
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semantic web publishing and search
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