Re: First-class data app scenarios?

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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> Susie Stephens wrote:
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>>
>> How about real estate marketing? Some people in that domain appear to
>> already have an interest in SIOC/Semantic Web/FOAF [1]. It's also an
>> application where you could incorporate geo data.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Susie
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/2007-real-estate-technology-predictions
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> 
> Susie,
> 
> A very nice link :-) I certainly like the manner in which it attempts to
> explain the value of both SIOC and FOAF to the uninitiated.
> 

Indeed. I added a reference to del.icio.us sweo

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> 
> Kingsley
> 
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>> Danny Ayers wrote:
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>>>
>>> I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas (however "pet") on
>>> applications/domains which might lend themselves to compelling
>>> showcases, but that dealt primarily with "pure" data. By that I mean
>>> not focussed around metadata associated with human-readable content,
>>> but rather on Things.
>>>
>>> I've heard of quite a few around HCLS, but these aren't really
>>> comprehensible for the non-specialist. Out in the Web 2.0 environment
>>> I can only think of social networks (i.e. some FOAF, probably not
>>> SIOC*), but that space seems generally overloaded with non-semweb
>>> applications, it would be hard to make something novel enough.
>>>
>>> Databases are used in the Enterprise for everything under the sun -
>>> surely there must be a few applications that would make compelling
>>> showcases exposed on the web..?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Danny.
>>>
>>> * re. not SIOC - while I think that work has immense potential, it
>>> still has doc content as a big part in the form of posts
>>>
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> 
> 

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