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

Yes,

I can also relate to your problem. I had a hard time minting up an
Ontology for an e-commerce website, which one would think is a very
popular domain.

Richard mentions CyC and Wordnet. That is still too geeky for most
developers out there... but I think everyone can relate to wikipedia.

I think what we are missing here is what schemaweb set off to do in
the first place, but with added "social" features ( popularity
rankings ) and some discussion groups.

Who's in charce of schemaweb?

Best,
A

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Richard H. McCullough <rhm@pioneerca.com> wrote:
> I agree with you completely!  I have the same problem with OpenCyc KB.
> But OpenCyc is making progress.
> 1. They added a "Concept Browser" -- a nice HTTP interface that lets you
> scroll through KB entries with similar names.  They have also added HTTP
> "services" that you can use to get important properties of concepts.
> 2. They  are integrating with the Wikipedia knowledge base.
> 3. Past work has already linked them with WordNet info.
> Dick
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Golda Velez" <gv@btucson.com>
> To: <bnowack@semsol.com>
> Cc: "Aldo Bucchi" <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>; <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: "State of the Semantic Web" - personal opinions?
>
>
>>
>> For what its worth, I think that its not only UI.  My biggest problem when
>> with real motivation I try to get some sensible linked data to  put on my
>> local-content websites, is that it is difficult to discover  what are the
>> most useful vocab terms to use in a query.  I think one  big thing we need
>> (and maybe its there but I haven't found it) is a  way to query a repository
>> as to what are the most frequent and most  unique terms available for
>> queries.
>>
>> --Golda
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:13 AM, Benjamin Nowack wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 01.07.2008 00:06:53, Aldo Bucchi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, UI has been completely neglected. We need cross fertilization...
>>>> and we can't expect them ( UI developers ) to spend months learning
>>>> semweb details. We need bring the goods to their door step and in
>>>> their own terms.
>>>>
>>>> My 2 cents:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.semanticflash.org/
>>>
>>> Great to see this! I'm not a Flash developer myself, but learned
>>> a lot from Flash UI folks, getting them on board would be priceless.
>>>
>>> It would be cool to see milestones announced on this list (or on
>>> public-semweb-ui[1], which could really benefit from some non-CFP
>>> traffic).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Benji
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-ui/
>>>
>>> --
>>> Benjamin Nowack
>>> http://bnode.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> :::: Aldo Bucchi ::::
>>>> +56 9 7623 8653
>>>> skype:aldo.bucchi
>>>> http://aldobucchi.com/
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> Dick McCullough
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> Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done;
> knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
> knowledge haspart proposition list;
> mKE do enhance od "Real Intelligence" done;
>
>
>



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