- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:50:57 +0100
- To: "Semantic web list" <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-sweo-ig@w3.org
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
When I heard of the possibility of a W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group I started jotting/blogging things that came to mind. Now the group exists (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/), and below is what I came up with (which already seem a little out-of-date, which has to be a good sign). The group's charter seems reasonable, although I get a feeling that it's aiming inside the enterprise rather than the somewhat more relevant side of the firewall, the web. In light of that I'll add another suggestion to the list below: to survey and address head-on from a SW perspective recent developments on the web, in particular those under the banner of "Web 2.0". --- Totally informal, jotted notes, some already blogged, some at the @@TODO stage (I thought I had 10, not sure what the others were) SWEO Suggestion #0 : A blog http://dannyayers.com/2006/02/02/sweo-suggestion-0-a-blog/ [note libby's comment] SWEO Suggestion #1 : Semantic^2 Web Tutorials http://dannyayers.com/archives/2006/02/02/sweo-suggestion-1-semantic2-web-tutorials/ [note http://rdfabout.com] SWEO Suggestion #2 : Semantic Web in a Box http://dannyayers.com/archives/2006/02/02/sweo-suggestion-2-semantic-web-in-a-box/ SWEO Suggestion #3 : SemWeb Bases http://dannyayers.com/archives/2006/02/03/sweo-suggestion-4-semweb-bases/ SWEO Suggestion #4 : Kitty bounties! shared server space code exchange (I do 3hrs Java in exchange for 3hrs Python) SWEO Suggestion #5 : SW Pattern Repository This blurs into Best Practices and Deployment a bit, but then what doesn't... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_(computer_science) http://webpatterns.org/ http://www.welie.com/patterns ESW Wiki: see FilterDown - interface with RSS/OPML TriplestoreWhiteBoard SWEO Suggestion #6 : Job Mart Job/studentship mart SWEO Suggestion #7 : Web 2.0 Mashups Aside from being a quick path to answering "where are the applications?", and generally looking cool from the lay web developer's point of view, there's another aspect that might be worth bearing in mind. For many (especially larger) companies, the kind of interaction they'd have on their roadmap for tech like that of the W3C's Semantic Web will be non-commital R&D, no plans of being first mover. However, mashups are a direct application of published data and/or exposed APIs. So any interesting mashup has the potential as a positive Trojan Horse. So e.g. a really cool app using Google Base with SemWeb tech would make Google a loosely-coupled early adopter. Bottom-up influence is possible, even on established megaliths - as the influence of Scoble's blogging on Microsoft demonstrates. Marc Canter has done a little evangelical work down this path, in the form of a Compatibility Matrix. See also : ESW Wiki - Micromodels. Hmm... maybe go through something like Technorati's top 100, first pass grab the feed and FOAF data of each site, make an aggregator (boring!). Second pass - address what the blogs are about, e.g. scrape Gizmodo, gather microformat reviews of the gadgets described. Accumulate all of this stuff in a triplestore with SPARQL endpoint, do a nice facetted view, etc etc. SWEO Suggestion #8 : New Media Tech-management targeted White Papers Screencasts Podcasts Posters T-shirts Whateever it takes! ---- On a mailing list point, I would guess that the most useful resource available to the SWEO group is SWIG, and SWIG can directly benefit from SWEO's work so hopefully there'll be plenty of cross-pollination. Oh, and I wonder if the W3C would care to hire a gardener for the ESW Wiki... Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
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