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- January 3rd, 2006
Semapedia is a project that seeks to combine the physical annotation technology of semacode with information from Wikipedia, a free and editable encyclopaedia on the internet. The goal of the Semapedia is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing information from the internet to the relevant places in the physical space. This is done by tagging physical places using semacode.
Semacode works by embedding a web link (URL) into a sort of two-dimensional black and white barcode which constitutes the tag. The tag can be read using a mobile camera phone supported by the Semacode Software Development Kit. This software is capable of detecting and decoding the tag and extracting the URL, thereby sending the user to the web link using the phone’s built-in browser. In short, the idea is to find a Wikipedia article, create a Semapedia tag, print it, and attach it to the corresponding physical site.
Check out an example of how the Semapedia works, and have a look at Semapedia Tags placed in the physical world.
Related projects: Socialight
Attaching the Semapedia tag to the physical site, in this case the Imperial Palace of Hofburg in Vienna. A mobile phone is used to decode the tag and extract the URL, thereby enabling the user to read the Wikipedia article.
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