Re: On the messaging issues (was also the RDF/XML discussion on the call)

Kingsley Idehen wrote on 12/04/2006 09:46:59 AM:

> Ivan/Lee: Is there an incongruence between the items I am listing above 
> and the RDF/XML matter resolution as you see it?

Hi Kingsley,

I don't have a strong feeling on the layer cake. I've never used it when 
teaching or pitching SW to someone outside the community (at least not 
until the late stages of the game) and don't think that it (the visual 
picture itself) is a major sales material of SW technologies. 

I also don't think that dispeling RDF/XML myths need be a cornerstone of 
SWEO messaging. I've rarely personally had someone express reservations to 
me about SW technologies because of RDF/XML, and while I understand that 
in the past confusion between the interchange syntax and the data model 
turned people off from the field, I do not (personally) see it as a major 
inhibitor currently. But I also think that my personal experience is 
largely worthless here: I think that we should wait and see what our 
surveys tell us about the market's view of SW technologies, and craft our 
messaging accordingly.

Lee

Received on Monday, 4 December 2006 16:04:41 UTC