Re: Getting Started

Hey all,

Thanks to everyone who helped set this up - definitely looking forward to
the work we're going to be doing.

I've recently started looking through the LMDB <http://www.linkedmdb.org/>,
and think we might be able to come up with a companion ontology that drives
deeper into the semantics (e.g. defining co-worker relationships that could
enable a clique analysis of movie makers).  It'd be pretty sweet if we
could get the LMDB beefed up by opening up datasets from places like the
box offices, film boards, or even production houses, with the result being
published data linked up to the LMDB.  Heck, if we helped them publish
their own data in RDF/RDFa (or even json through a REST interface that we
could map), we'd have a much more organic linked data situation.

-Ryan

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dave Nicholas <dave@dknicholas.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks again for joining the Film Industry Community Group. I look
> forward to us all working together.
>
> I've opted to start development using the main public W3C wiki at:
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/Film
> Ideally we can use /Film as a subpage parent to keep our work under
> one roof (e.g. /Film/UseCases)
>
> I came up with a few potential areas of interest (listed below for
> simplicity) that are a combination of things that I'm interested in
> working on and that were mentioned within the originating thread on
> the semantic-web list. What are people's initial thoughts? What other
> areas would you like to see us explore?
>
> Potential Areas of Interest:
> * Convincing film classification boards (such as BBFC) to publish
> classifications as linked data.
> * Getting box office statistics published as linked data.
> * Deeper ontologies that enable:
> - Narrative films to give more depth to their worlds ('making
> transmedia semantic')
> - Documentary/factual films to have greater findability
> * Free unique identifier alternative to International Standard
> Audiovisual Number
> * Social film recommendations based on federated social web
> * Recommendations for use of RDFa by independent filmmakers /
> production companies
>
> Thanks again for participating.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dave Nicholas
> http://dknicholas.com
>
>