On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:59, Justin Bailey wrote:
> If you did have a "microformats" (or similary non-intrusive means) of
> marking up a page, it could allow anyone to provid an "ariel" interface to
> their data right in the page. Now, I don't know if anyone would do that -
> but it sounds cool to just point Ariel at a page/site that is compliant and
> have basically at a data-access layer for it. Pretty blue-sky though.

Certainly it would be great if I could extract data from any web page in that 
fashion, but it sounds like we're really dreaming of the semantic web. I seem 
to remember enjoying listening to the webcast of this Tim Berners-Lee's 
presentation on the future of the web last time I was on holiday:
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20060314_139

Alex