- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:27:55 -0500
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: 'W3C SWEO IG' <public-sweo-ig@w3.org>
Ivan Herman wrote: > Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >> All, >> >> Please look at: >> 1. http://eventful.com/ >> 2. http://upcoming.org/ >> >> > > Thx Kingsley, I did not know abou this one... > > Adding events to these looks o.k., but I find, in both cases, a small > usability problem. Because these sites want to be nice:-(, they > automatically try to adapt to the locality. Ie, when I go to the site, > it automatically filters the entries to those that are close to > Amsterdam. This means that, if I relied on this thing, I would certainly > miss some events. I think that is a bug. > > I did not find an RSS feed on the first, but did find one on the second. > However, I did not find the tag information in the feed itself: > http://upcoming.org/news/index.xml, ie, it looks like filtering out the > semantic web related events is not obvious... > > Sigh:-) > Ivan, We can reach out the the people behind these sites. You see, they already have context, which also means we have the basis for discussions along the following lines: "Here is how your service could provide a little more value ......" . No different to your suggestions re. the Music Ontology effort :-) There are many Web 2.0 style applications out there that simply need this kind of communication from the SemWeb community via SWEO. Kingsley > Ivan > > > >> We should add pending SWEO events [1] to these services an track these >> sites (via RSS feeds) for events that are relevant to SWEO effort. The >> overall net effect (as I've stated repeatedly) is that once in Atom or >> RSS (don't care what version) I can put the data into a SPARQL compliant >> RDF Data Store (enabling us to SELECT, ASK, or CONSTRUCT against said >> Data Source). >> >> BTW - I assume others can produce and expose RDF Data Sources along >> similar lines too :-) >> >> >> The biggest question for the Semantic Web at the end of the day is: >> Where will the Semantic Content becoming from? How costly will the >> production of this data be etc? >> >> If we all recall, one of the early use cases of XML was content >> syndication and subscription (a la RSS while in the hands of Netscape). >> And in similar vain the question was: How will the XML content be >> produced? And when produced how would the syndication and subscription >> ecosystem materialize? The answer to these questions was the Blogosphere >> as constructed and demonstrated by Dave Winer (using his Radio Userland >> platform). >> >> All of my suggestions are about SWEO setting the stage for using the >> same game plan to unobtrusively unveil the power of the Semantic Web. >> >> Again, this is why Mesh-ups over Mash-ups is key. Likewise, viewing and >> querying the many online communities of XML/XHTML/Wiki-Markup content >> syndicates and subscribers via an RDF based data model is key to >> engaging Web Community. >> >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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