RE: List membership - more women

 

I read the list too and also have some of the same sentiments as the other
women - I don't feel particularly compelled to comment in discussions.
Michael Brunnbauer and Pat Hayes work on our team and offer far more useful
comments to the on-going discussions, but I do learn a lot (occasionally a
little more than just crafty arguing) by reading the list.  

I'm just trying to build an application that takes advantage of linked data
that real (as opposed to un-real :-), non-technical users can use. "It's not
big data, but it's good data" - is what Pat Hayes' says about what we are
doing with ImageSnippets. 

I was recently invited to speak at a conference in Barcelona on the future
of metadata technology as it relates to photos. More and more people are
becoming aware of the need to get their thinking out of the databases and
api's and open to semantic technologies. But a lot of linked data
applications are way beyond the technical level of even some fairly
knowledgable developers - and even beyond their level of understanding about
what linked data can do for them on a day to day basis. I started a game
there called, 'What's your least favorite keyword?' A funny way to get
people thinking about what they can do if they don't have to think about
metadata in the same way they have been doing for 20 years. 

These academic discussions are interesting, but I don't think we'd be
driving cars on autobahns today if people had discussed the engineering of
the internal combustion engine this much before they machined their first
pistons and cylinders. Standards surface over time as people actually try
things and along the way have little successes and failures and so on. 

I liked something I read the other day that TimBl wrote about (paraphrased)
"...the URI space being universal, but that there does not have to be only
one universe. Universal but not unique." 

Margaret Warren

Received on Monday, 24 June 2013 13:11:19 UTC