- From: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:44:52 -0400
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- CC: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 3/23/2011 12:50 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: > On 03/23/2011 12:22 PM, Nathan wrote: >> Almost every developer I know, from enterprise to bedroom developers, >> work primarily with OO oriented languages, or key/value data structures >> in functional languages. >> >> The primary *huge* issue here, is that most people can't work with >> triples and graphs without special tooling. Not to mention that it's >> highly unfamiliar to them. >> >> Send an object with an id over the wire and people can use it, it's >> familiar, they "get it", send them a triple, and they're lost - even if >> they grok the graph and triple, they don't have the machinery to handle >> it often. >> >> This is pretty much the sole reason that every developer I know outside >> of the sem web community does not use RDF in any way, even though they >> like the concepts and would like "linked data". > > Yes, this is exactly it! > > I think this is one of the fundamental misunderstandings that we are > having in this group. Richard posted a good visualization: Speaking for myself, it's not a misunderstanding at all. Instead, it's just different priorities. It's not a priority for my organization for all or even many Web developers that use LAMP-type stacks to become Semantic Web developers. I'm not (personally) even convinced that it's a reasonable goal in general, but that's another (controversial, I suppose) story... Lee
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