- From: Chris Wallace <Chris.Wallace@uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:43:59 +0100
- To: "Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK)" <ian.dickinson@hp.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Hi Ian (next door) et al It strikes me that the first use case cited is utopian, relying on near universal adoption of semantic web ideas, whilst the others suggested depend not so much on semantic relationships but on geo-location tagging of resources, with computed spatial relationships. The example for the semantic web I use in teaching is the problem of merging company data across functional or organisational boundaries in a company or sector, which still leaves a lot of vocabulary work to achieve any benefit. My linked data teaching examples are generally meshups based on dbpedia data such as these timelines of Rock artist releases http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/RDF/groupIndex.xq However this use case sadly illustrates the instability of linked data - I just noticed that Eric Clapton a(and others) has gone from this list - well it seems some re-categorisation has occurred in Wikipedia so he and most everyone else of importance are now in the Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_inductees_as_a_Performer%E2%80%8E Category http://dbpedia.org/page/Category:Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_inductees_as _a_Performer%E2%80%8E Note the excited final characters in this name! So for me its still very hard vocab work on the one hand, fragile meshups on the other. Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff really! Chris Example is from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery#The_Semantic_Web This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found
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