RE: First-class data app scenarios?

What about geo data, e.g. openstreetmap?

Ian 

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> [mailto:public-sweo-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Danny Ayers
> Sent: 25 December 2006 10:02
> To: W3C SWEO IG
> Subject: First-class data app scenarios?
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> 
> I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas (however "pet") 
> on applications/domains which might lend themselves to 
> compelling showcases, but that dealt primarily with "pure" 
> data. By that I mean not focussed around metadata associated 
> with human-readable content, but rather on Things.
> 
> I've heard of quite a few around HCLS, but these aren't 
> really comprehensible for the non-specialist. Out in the Web 
> 2.0 environment I can only think of social networks (i.e. 
> some FOAF, probably not SIOC*), but that space seems 
> generally overloaded with non-semweb applications, it would 
> be hard to make something novel enough.
> 
> Databases are used in the Enterprise for everything under the 
> sun - surely there must be a few applications that would make 
> compelling showcases exposed on the web..?
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny.
> 
> * re. not SIOC - while I think that work has immense 
> potential, it still has doc content as a big part in the form of posts
> 
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