RE: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4

Hi Ian,

> Which examples does
> anyone else use to get the idea of LOD across in the mainstream?

One I example I've been telling recently is around travel.
"Find me the cheapest/fastest route from my place in Berlin to Florence
combining busses, trains, flights, etc." 

For a human, that's quite a hard problem, and the best route might not
be easy to find. Machines could do so much better...

Cheers,
Georgi

--
Georgi Kobilarov
Freie Universität Berlin
www.georgikobilarov.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK)
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: RE: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4
> 
> 
> Hi Tom,
> I heard the interview too. It was cool (and slightly weird) to hear
> "semantic web" discussed on prime-time news, but I thought that Tim
> could have used a more compelling example. The interviewer didn't seem
> overly impressed by Tim's "find me music by people born within 100
> miles of my location". OTOH, it's hard to come up with really
> compelling examples to use with non-specialists. Which examples does
> anyone else use to get the idea of LOD across in the mainstream?
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-lod-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Tom Heath
> > Sent: 09 July 2008 10:27
> > To: public-lod@w3.org
> > Subject: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4
> >
> >
> > TimBL was on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning (the
> > BBCs prime morning news/current affairs radio programme)
> > talking about the Semantic Web, and specifically mentions
> > Linking Open Data:
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7496000/7496976.stm
> >
> > Nice :)
> >
> > --
> > Tom Heath
> 
> 
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