Re: [Welcoming feedback] Semantic Web: Information wants to be useful

Hi Nicolas,

indeed a nice presentation! A couple of small remarks:

1. In slide 16, you should change the reference to something like:

    <Person rdf:ID="me">
or:
    <Person rdf:about="http://nr
w.free.fr/data/contact/foaf­-nicolas-­raoul.rdf#me">

, since @rdf:ID is like xml:id and names a fragment identifier, not
the entire URI.

(See e.g. <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html>.)

2. The "dbpedia2:" sparql prefix in slide 21 looks a bit odd. I
recommend using the same prefix in all the query examples. On a
similar note, "dbpedia-owl:" may look a bit odd? I did a quick search
but found no apparent conventions for common dbpedia prefixes, though
I found the ones in <http://sparcool.net/> to be quite appealing
("dpo" and "dbp" in this case). Just a thought.

3. To nitpick some more, in slide 17, I believe it's recommended to
use the DC term namespace <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> instead of the
nowadays legacy "elements/1.1/" one (though that's still very common
in the wild). See <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/> for
details.

As said, just a couple of small remarks; overall it looks good. Good
luck on Saturday!

Best regards,
Niklas Lindström



On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Nicolas Raoul
<nicolas.raoul.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> On Saturday I will give a presentation at Tokyo's Linux Users Group,
> the goal being to entice attendees to use the Semantic Web data,
> create mashups, and publish their data. The goal is not to teach them
> exactly how to do, nor to explain theories, but to simply show what
> the Semantic Web enables, and make them want to know more. Attendees
> are Linux/Java/Open Source/IT specialists, most of them with no
> Semantic Web experience.
>
> I wrote these slides: http://nrw.free.fr/tlugsw.pdf
> I am sure the slides contain errors and misrepresentations, and I
> would be really glad to get some feedback so that I can fix them (and
> learn).
>
> Thank you very much for your time!
> Nicolas Raoul.
>
>

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2009 16:38:09 UTC