- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:49:19 +0100
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Ying Ding <dingying@indiana.edu>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org
In defence of Ying Ding, mapping out the academic citation material is worthwhile, but I do tend to agree with Dan and Jeremy in that it's only part of the picture (and almost certainly not the major part). While I could have a good old rant about the role played by enthusiastic amateurs (which hopefully is all somewhere archived in mailing lists such as rdf-dev & xml-dev), something that could more easily be overlooked is the influence of (developers of) related tech, in particular things like the rise of REST as *the* practical paradigm for Web services and the explosion of online social networks, all very strongly informing the Semantic Web effort. I would suggest that these outside influences had a lot to do with the reinvention of the Semantic Web as Linked Data (though timbl is the authority on that bit of history), rather than either as just a metadata idea or another kind of expert system. Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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