Re: studies about LD visibility

Olaf has brought a good question to the table. I would assume that  
Linked Data is not well known in the "web 2.0" community, IMO.  
Furthermore, this is somethig that I personally experience everyday  
with the community of developers in Austin. That is why we have  
started a sig group: semantic web Austin (www.semanticwebaustin.org)

I'm going to take this opportunity to share with everybody here that  
Tom Heath will be coming to Austin next month and delivering a  
tutorial on Linked data, specially for those developers who are not  
aware of it.

So maybe we can't answer Olaf's question yet. But I know that there is  
a list somewhere of commercial applications that are using/consuming  
Linked Data (can somebody point us to the link?) I would sugget that  
this would indicate the awareness of developers  and companies about  
Linked Data

Juan Sequeda
www.juansequeda.com

On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Tom Heath <tom.heath@talis.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Olaf,
>
> What's your overall goal? It might be that there's another way of
> answering your underlying question or achieving this goal than such a
> study (which if it doesn't exist may be costly in time and money to
> perform).
>
> Tom.
>
>
> 2009/1/22 Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>:
>> 2009/1/21 Olaf Hartig <hartig@informatik.hu-berlin.de>:
>>
>>> Does someone know a study that investigates whether people from  
>>> different
>>> communities know about linked data and are aware of the benefits?
>>
>> I've not seen anything, but if the W3C has resources for another
>> Education and Outreach group in the near future, I'd suggest such a
>> study as a deliverable.
>>
>> As far as I can tell there is awareness in some of the scientific
>> communities, though as a message for the Web at large linked data
>> seems still to be be limited to a subset of the semweb community.
>> Having said that, places like Read/WriteWeb and programmableweb.com  
>> do
>> expose running applications to the Web 2.0 community. Also RDFa
>> deployment seems to be growing in general, and that's good data.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Danny.
>>
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