- From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetilk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:54:00 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@oracle.com>, W3C SW Education and Outreach IG <public-sweo-ig@w3.org>
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:03, Ivan Herman wrote: > having had some corridor discussion with Ralph, Sandro, and Tim right > now, a possible frequently asked question on the contest: how does it > differ from the Semantic Web Challenge of ISWC? We should have the > answer to this... Yes. I think it is a different approach to the same problem. While the Semantic Web Challenge focuses on competitive aspects and to applications that are interesting seen from the perspective of people involved with the Semantic Web, I want to downplay the competitive aspects (thus, my skepticism against naming a "winner", that aspect is allready well covered by the SW Challenge), and rather gather people in ad-hoc groups based on their personal interest, with the objective of promoting SW through projects that are likely to have wide adoption beyond the community. So, yes, I suppose I appeal to a certain altruism in the community here, but as I haven't really used any of the applications of the SW Challenge (even though I have considered submitted a proposal there), I think an different approach should be considered. BTW, the iswc2007 pages looks to me like an awful tagsoup with severe accessibility problems. Their use of javascript links creates problems for users with popup-blockers in FF and Opera... Anyone have contacts there that could fix it...? Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Semantic Web Specialist Opera Software ASA
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