- From: Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:31:35 +0100
- To: w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITK_%28gene%29. It's actually mostly highly structured text, with numerous stable publication identifiers (DOIs and PubMed ids). OK, so it's not marked up in RDF/XML, etc., but in order to exploit the long tail you actually have to have a tail in the first place. I suggest that it's a classic case of a choice between a simple system with lots of users and just enough functionality to be usable, or a more elaborate system lots of functionality, but with fewer users. I have a lot of sympathy with the later, but my money is on the former. Regards Rod On 10 Jul 2008, at 18:03, Bryan Bishop wrote: > > On Thursday 10 July 2008, Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote: >> Actually, they do mention http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ as >> a note added in proof, and I think the main point of their paper >> was the ability to make use of the large, already existing community >> that edits Wikipedia, rather than, say, create a new domain-specific >> Wiki with a much smaller pool of potential editors. It's >> fundamentally about the long tail, and how to exploit it. > > So, if you're going to place it on Wikipedia you're going to fall > victim > to the already existing problems with the lack of semantics, yes? > There > is of course the templating functionality but I recall this being > somewhat of a hack for structured data storage and extraction. The > main > concern with plaintext-on-Wikipedia is that it's not an effective way > to truly exploit the long tail, since you're going to end up with this > massive plaintext disaster that will require human collating > (redundant > work- just get it right the first time). I should go read the genewiki > announcement anyway though :-). > > - Bryan > ________________________________________ > http://heybryan.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------- Roderic Page Professor of Taxonomy DEEB, FBLS Graham Kerr Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Email: r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk Tel: +44 141 330 4778 Fax: +44 141 330 2792 AIM: rodpage1962@aim.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1112517192 http://iphylo.blogspot.com http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
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