- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:50:51 +0100
- To: Chris Wallace <Chris.Wallace@uwe.ac.uk>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- CC: Ian Millard <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
On 04/06/2009 09:26, "Chris Wallace" <Chris.Wallace@uwe.ac.uk> wrote: > Hugh > > This is excellent stuff and I totally support your views about composable Sem > Web tools: Brian Kernighan et al. must be proud of us. > > Just a couple of observations: > > - the AJAX interface is neat but its no good for browsing: when returning to a > list of links, status has been lost so an unfolded list is folded again, and > there is no indicated of visited links. I would favour conventional web > behaviour. But when Ian showed me I thought it was so cool :-) Point noted. > > - not your problem but I note that search via Sindice is rather disappointing > - for example > > http://sameas.org/html?q=Kiwi (a general term for a flightless bird found in > New Zealand divided into several species, but also a colloquial expression for > a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) > > throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a > juggle of plumbing but no juice. No sign of > > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kiwi however Ah. We only look at the first n results from Sindice, and clearly kiwi is a popular name. Clicking on the sindice link will show you what we got. However, I see that using "kiwi bird" gives a decent return, so all is not lost. Best Hugh > > > Chris Wallace > > > This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software > and none were found >
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