ACTION: LeeF to summarize goals of resource gathering/recommending

I claim victory on this action.

See: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/InfoGathering#preview

Wiki edits are welcome, but for possible email discussion, here's the text 
I added:

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Information Gathering Output

Lee: I think that there are two possible types of collateral that an 
Information Gathering task force could produce. The first is set of 
comprehensive resource lists. This would be a set of lists of all Semantic 
Web books, articles, tools, applications, tutorials, demonstrations that 
we know of. Parts of these lists could be created automatically (e.g. with 
DOAP or by scraping Amazon.com), parts could be created semiautomatically 
(e.g. by maintaining sweo tagged links in del.icio.us and pulling those 
into the output) and parts could be curated manually. What would this 
collateral look like visually? Wing has suggested using SIMILE's Exhibit 
to visualize these comprehensive list in a faceted search/browsing manner. 
Kingsley has (I think) suggested using ?OpenLink's ODS infrastructure to 
present this data.

The second option for what collateral could be produced is what Karen 
called an adjudicated showcase. For this option, we would settle upon some 
manner of determining the most mature, most accessible, and, indeed, best 
resources in each category we examine. We would feature a select number of 
books, or tutorials, of tools, and of demonstrations.

Personally, I prefer this second option. I think that limited, 
high-quality lists are of much greater value than comprehensive lists for 
educating and reaching out to people who are not already Semantic Web 
believers. A developer wishing to try out SW technologies for a new 
project will fare better with a list of the top 10 tools to implement SW 
solutions rather than a comprehensive list of hundreds of tools in various 
states of maturity. A LOB-manager wishing to familiarize herself with the 
SW world would likely prefer a select list of the top 3 SW-for-business 
books or presentations than a comprehensive list of scores aimed at 
various audiences and in various degrees of polish. Of course, such 
showcases could link to comprehensive lists, so perhaps we can have our 
cake and eat it too...
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Lee

Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:37:54 UTC