- From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:40:30 +0100
- To: Bernard vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Bernard, hello. On 2006 Oct 24 , at 09.49, Bernard vatant wrote: > I'm happy to see VO coming in the SW list, even if only in the form > of a job announcement. > I've been lurking for quite a while to the progress of IVOA [1] > towards adoption of semantic technologies The various VO projects have indeed been sceptical about SW approaches (`this decade's fad...'!), but I believe there is indeed a slowly growing awareness that these approaches have strengths in interaction styles relevant to astronomy -- it's strongly peer-to- peer, meaning is important and can be contested, and so on. > The Semantic Web community at large, IMO, is not aware enough of > this field, which is a very exciting opportunity to test efficiency > and scalability of semantic tools in "Big Science". SW technologies (in a broad sense) have already been quite successful in bioinformatics, but I think that astronomy has features that stress a different part of the SW's `vision'. In both cases, though, there's a target community of scientists who have absolutely no interest in the underlying technology, but who are willing to get behind anything which successfully provides interesting results. In other words, the SW might be an example of something which really, really, _cannot_ be done with Fortran. All the best, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK
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