- From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:07:57 +0100
- To: Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de>
- CC: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, public-lod@w3.org
Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > And publishers will start to differenciate between dogs and pictures of dogs as > soon as it provides them added value. I think in this lies a key issue. Much of my experience of producing linked data has been anti-climatic. If I was having to justify every coding hour then it's hard to say the providing public open data really gained much value for our business. What would be really nice is some public services which consume RDF and produce something useful, so that people actually get a direct value out of putting out linked data. One of my unfunded, background projects is programme.ecs.soton.ac.uk -- I'm working on a PHP library which will consume the RDF and produce a nice big part of an HTML website for a conference from it, along with mobile interfaces & tools like a "print out a schedule to go on the door of each room each day" and "check you didn't double book a speaker". Plus a tool to author the data in a spreadsheet and convert that into RDF. The goal is to get people creating nice RDF data for their conferences because it makes their lives easier, not because it's the right thing. Hopefully in the next year or two it'll hit a tipping point and we'll get some third party tools working with the data and it'll be a really useful format. You can see a prototype of the PHP library in action on this conference site: http://data.dev8d.org/2011/programme/ I'd encourage the community to build more tools for webmasters, not for the linked data community! -- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248 You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
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