Implement Semantic Web standards in your Web site

Rob Crowther is a Web Developer from London and is currently moderator of the Exploring Semantic Web Technologies forum on developerWorks. He has a keen interest in Web Standards and blogs sporadically at http://www.boogdesign.com/b2evo/.

Summary:  With Yahoo's recent announcement that they will implement support of Semantic Web standards in their search engine, the benefits that the Semantic Web has for your site have never been clearer. In addition to the existing benefits such as your structured content giving you a free, open-ended API, you now get the opportunity for increased search rankings, and more importantly, increased relevance because the search engine can better understand what the content of your site is about. In this tutorial you will learn to implement a simple social networking site using PHP and MySQL, which will implement Semantic Web standards such as hCard and Friend of a Friend (FOAF) as part of a semantic Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme.