Re: Showing the Semantic Web

Hi Peter, Danny et al

A while back, when we worked on sheltefinder.org  rdf schema,  you 
kindly made yourself available to teach me  how to go about
implementing it. I downloaded Protege then, but havent learned how to 
use it yet

 I am coming to Amsterdam in the spring, I hope there will be an 
opportunity there.to catch up.

I have been thinking: do we have anough people in the world  to set up a 
series of 'ongoing workshops' and tutorials regarding various aspects of
semantic implementations? Would this be a good idea?

We all have different levels and angles of expertise/understanding. Some 
are domain experts, some are good at conceptualization and abstraction, 
some others are good at implementation , others are tool oriented.

It looks to me like the semantic web can only happen when we manage to 
integrate all this knowledge (the big K) into a view that can be
'browsed' from many angles . Maybe this is one of the ideas behind the  
UFO project as well.

So I think there should be at least one University in every country 
where people who are working with the semantic web, writing about it, 
teaching it,
learning about it  can set up a collaborative 'lab' where they can exchange?

A lot of knowledge can be transferred remotely,   but other stuff I know 
I would benefit from sitting in a room with someone knowledgeable, with 
a computer and an overhead project who can show me how to do things that 
I need/want to do. I am sure half a day here and there would be useful.

Ideally all these good companies and organisations who are members of W3 
and have offices worldwide should also be kind enough to share with the 
semantic communities around them

I am currently in Thailand, where there is no W3 member to my knowledge 
yet, although there was a paper presented at this conference organised 
by Myliatidis
written by two guys at Asian Institute of Technology.  In the summer, I 
will be in Europe (Milan, London, Brussells, Amsterdam). 
Anyone in those cities who is willing to set up a workshop (I want to 
learn how to use protege and other tools) would they please drop me a line?
Maybe we can find others in the same cities who would like to attend and 
get something going.

If others like this idea, can we just open a wiki page where people can 
enter details about their location, expertise and availability for 
regular knowledge
sharing activities?

Cheers

Paola Di Maio

Received on Friday, 20 January 2006 08:27:42 UTC