One of the things I try to become involved in is looking forward to the future of what’s next on the Web and what we need to start laying the foundation for 3-4 years from now in the future.
I’m involved in conversations on RDF (Resource Description Framework) language that essentially is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications designed as a metadata model using XML but has evolved to be used as a general method of modeling knowledge, through a variety of syntax formats.
Here’s the article thread for those interested in joining in…
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2009Jun/0222.html
Thanks,
— Jeff