- From: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:26:52 +0100
- To: Bob Ferris <zazi@elbklang.net>
- Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Bob Ferris <zazi@elbklang.net> wrote: > Hi Ian, > >> But now people are seeing some of >> >> the data being made available in browseable form e.g. at data.gov.uk >> or dbpedia and saying, "I want to make one of those". > > I don't really believe that people would say after browsing dbpedia "I want > to make one of those". That's not the User Experience users expect to get. > Please remember the "Semantic-Web-UI" discussion last time. People are > tending to use/experience richer visualisations of the > data/knowledge/information in the background. I hear often, especially in > the last time, the term 'story telling' - and that's it, I think. Actually there is a class of people that do say that. They want to be the "dbpedia of X", whatever X is. No matter how much we can criticise dbpedia for its appearance or data quality, we have to applaud the fact that it defined a new category of service. Ian
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