Re: "State of the Semantic Web" - personal opinions?

TimBL and all

Does that mean that the one can summarize the Semantic Web as only about 1)
getting Linked Data out there and 2) using the Linked Data?

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student

Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jsequeda
jsequeda@cs.utexas.edu

Semantic Web in Austin: http://juansequeda.blogspot.com/

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:

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> I think it is important not to asses the semantic web as though it were
> another software technology like OOP.  People who miscategorize it in that
> way look for the wrong form of return on investment.  It is important to
> look as it as an interconnection  bus, and it hasn't started working in
> earnest until one person's data is being used by some other unplanned use.
> This unexpected reuse is the meaure.
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> So I would be interest in you analysis of the way in which people have
> re-used things like the Linked Open Data out there.    Mashups which have
> been build on it and so on.  Application-specific things and non-specific.
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> Tim
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