- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:47:49 +0100
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
The W3C has some demonstrators for RSS, but the outside world is leagues ahead with desktop aggregator applications. Might there be any possibility of a W3C-developed/sponsored aggregator application designed to showcase the benefits of RDF? (It could also act as a testbed for new ideas). I'm thinking of an app like RSS Bandit [1] but developed more in the manner of Amaya [2]. Out in RSS land the line remains reasonably clear between those who appreciate the benefit of using RDF and those who don't. One of the problems is that as new vocabularies come available, even those that are specifically designed for use with RSS, there often isn't any visible advance in functionality. When things like partial understanding through inference are mentioned in this environment the response often includes the expression "smoking crack". But if there were a single (though presumably modular), figurehead app in which there was tangible evidence of utility, maybe people would be less concerned about the physical appearance of the interchange syntax... Cheers, Danny. [1] http://www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp?ScreenShots [2] http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ -- http://dannyayers.com
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