- From: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:40:02 -0500
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: RebholzSchuhmann <d.rebholz.schuhmann@gmail.com>, Joanne Luciano <jluciano@gmail.com>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com>, Conor Dowling <conor-dowling@caregraf.com>, Rafael Richards <rmrich5@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Morris wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:34 AM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: > [ . . . ] >> > Yes, we decided that we simply didn't have time to write a long document >> > that more fully explained the benefits [of RDF]. >> >> I think the argument would be greatly strengthened by proof points to >> support the claims. They don't need to be long and elaborate. They >> could be at the top level like "The steel industry switched from SL7 >> to RDF and cut their costs by 50% in 18 months," or to support a >> specific claim such as "RDF is web scale as evidenced by the fact that >> it's the primary information format used by Google, Bing, and Yandex." >> >> [Note, those are made up examples. Replace them with real proof >> points from industries which have already switched to RDF.] > > I agree. Actual success stories would be the most convincing. Hmm, is > there a W3C wiki page somewhere, that collects links to RDF success > stories? If not, maybe we should make one. I'm imagining something > like the RDF Tools wiki page, which is database driven (I think using > the Semantic MediaWiki extension, but I could be wrong), so that one can > list tools by various categories: > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools > For example, here is a list of tools in the "Triple Store" category: > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Category:Triple_Store > > For RDF success story links I am imagining capturing attributes like: > - URL of RDF success story > - Brief description (one sentence) > - Field, Industry or Application category > - Positives observed > - Negatives observed > > This would make it a lot easier to point to success stories when writing > or presenting about RDF. What do others think? Should we make a wiki > page like this for links to RDF success stories? Would those be the > right fields to capture? (Simple is best, because they need to be > concisely displayable.) There are the case studies at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ which could be used as a starting point. Also http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/slides/Slides.pdf Although both use cases and case studies are included, it's really the latter which would be most useful. Tom
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