Re: Survey on semantic-web@w3.org

Jeremy,
   Rather than simply ignoring this, I thought I'd reply with my 
thoughts.

- This isn't the best place to see "the semantic web market". You won't 
get anything out of a survey on this list other than a little bit of 
information about some people who are interested enough to take part in 
meta-discussion on the SW.
- How about some vocabulary re-use? survey:name? What's wrong with FOAF?
- I expect you could get half of this information just by scraping the 
list archives for pointers to sites containing FOAF.
- If you're going to extract age, name, etc. information from people, 
we want a few things from you:
   - Some code of practice for ethical research
   - Some guarantees about what the data are to be used for, etc.
   - Your intents and goals set out ahead of time. If you're going to do 
a survey, you have to follow survey practices.
- There doesn't seem to be anything in your survey which would be of 
much use anonymously, or which could answer any questions for that 
matter.

   Care to fill us in?

Regards,
-Richard

On Mar 28, 2005, at 04:53, Jeremy Wong wrote:

> Dear all,
>  
> I would like to do a survey on this mailing list, in order to see the 
> semantic web market worldwide. It would be grateful if you can give a 
> helping hand on this.
>  
> To do the survey, please reply this message and fill in the survey 
> triples as I demonstrated below.
>  
> Thanks and regards,
> Jeremy
>  
> --
> Sample survey triples:
>  
> @prefix survey: <http://example.org/2005/survey#> ..
>  
> []
>   survey:name "Jeremy Wong" ;
>   survey:birthYear "1980" ;
>   survey:country "Hong Kong, China" ;
>   survey:organization "City University of Hong Kong" ;
>   survey:role "Undergraduate Student" ..
>  
> --
> Alternate survey triples:
>  
>
> @prefix survey: <http://example.org/2005/survey#> ..
> @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> ..
> @prefix country: <http://www.daml.org/2001/09/countries/iso#> ..
>  
> []
>   survey:name "Jeremy Wong"^^xsd:string ;
>   survey:birthYear "1980"^^xsd:year ;
>   survey:country country:HK ;
>   survey:organization <http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/> ;
>   survey:role "Undergraduate Student"^^xsd:string .
>  
>  

Received on Monday, 28 March 2005 10:52:10 UTC