Jerven from uniprot has a paper (accepted? Not sure... At least submitted - he sent me the submission) where he details how RDF has made his life much much easier... It may be worth knocking on his door for additional comment at least... M Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Morris wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:34 AM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> >wrote: >> [ . . . ] >>> > Yes, we decided that we simply didn't have time to write a long >document >>> > that more fully explained the benefits [of RDF]. >>> >>> I think the argument would be greatly strengthened by proof points >to >>> support the claims. They don't need to be long and elaborate. They >>> could be at the top level like "The steel industry switched from SL7 >>> to RDF and cut their costs by 50% in 18 months," or to support a >>> specific claim such as "RDF is web scale as evidenced by the fact >that >>> it's the primary information format used by Google, Bing, and >Yandex." >>> >>> [Note, those are made up examples. Replace them with real proof >>> points from industries which have already switched to RDF.] >> >> I agree. Actual success stories would be the most convincing. Hmm, >is >> there a W3C wiki page somewhere, that collects links to RDF success >> stories? If not, maybe we should make one. I'm imagining something >> like the RDF Tools wiki page, which is database driven (I think using >> the Semantic MediaWiki extension, but I could be wrong), so that one >can >> list tools by various categories: >> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools >> For example, here is a list of tools in the "Triple Store" category: >> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Category:Triple_Store >> >> For RDF success story links I am imagining capturing attributes like: >> - URL of RDF success story >> - Brief description (one sentence) >> - Field, Industry or Application category >> - Positives observed >> - Negatives observed >> >> This would make it a lot easier to point to success stories when >writing >> or presenting about RDF. What do others think? Should we make a >wiki >> page like this for links to RDF success stories? Would those be the >> right fields to capture? (Simple is best, because they need to be >> concisely displayable.) > >There are the case studies at >http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ which could be used as >a starting point. >Also http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/slides/Slides.pdf > >Although both use cases and case studies are included, it's really the >latter which would be most useful. > >Tom
Received on Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:53:32 UTC