- From: David Huynh <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:33:52 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Daniel, Thank you for your detailed reply! I'm glad there is tremendous progress toward a platform for conference metadata. And I applaud such an effort and everyone involved. You said, "a task which requires additional resources is less likely to be pursued." May I suggest a different observation: "a task that has no immediate, personal benefit, or instant gratification, is less likely to be pursued." Whether you add that <link rel="alternate"> makes no observable difference to anyone, including yourself, who has just a standard web browser. Humans are known to generally optimize for short-term, personal gains over long-term prospects for humanity. So, why expend the effort to add that line of HTML code? Am I making sense to you? If we look at this problem from a "return on investment" point of view, then your suggestion for "remove as many barriers as possible" is about lowering the investment--which I totally agree. My suggestion is about increasing the return from "no observable difference" to "some observable difference". I was simply wondering what people on this mailing list have done to achieve "some observable difference," that's all. I think attacking the problem from both ends will help us make progress faster. Best regards, David P.S. I believe I already got all the answers to my questions here, so for me there's no need to continue this thread, unless you want to.
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