- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:37:21 +0000
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- CC: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Certainly :-) And you make a good point: this could have been applied to any emerging technology; for example, replace "Web" with "Database" circa 1965. I think we can and should look around for new and exciting applications; however, Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies offers solutions to existing problems of data fusion in the corporate world. The most interesting thing I have seen in this thread was a little tagged-on paragraph from Afraz: ------ Forwarded Message > From: Afraz Jaffri <afrazjaffri@hotmail.com> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:26:36 +0000 > To: <semantic-web@w3.org> > Cc: <danbri@danbri.org>, <afraz.jaffri@capgemini.co.uk> > Subject: RE: call to arms <snip> > FWIW we have 2 large projects that use linked data 'under the hood' that the > customer doesn't even realise is there. We have a few more in the pipeline, it > really is just a matter of time. This is not an isolated case. And once a company is using Linked Data internally, it is only a matter of time before the appropriate subset is made open. For example this is sort of how qdos came about out of garlik ( http://qdos.com/user/Danny-Ayers/26c95f0c5aeac91c7f54b1914db44f2d ) Best Hugh On 01/04/2010 20:16, "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote: > Hugh, may I tweak your post a little: > > The use case: > My organisation's support staff have decided that the Web > is the way ahead. > They want to replace their document storage with a web site in a seamless > fashion. > They ask me for advice, and I point them ... where? > > Where is the site that tells them how to re-target their data layer > from .doc to HTML? > > Where are the specifications of Web performance, so they can do the > procurement process (hardware and software)? > Where are the utilities that help get documents in and out? > Where are the simple descriptions of ... > > Of course some of these things may exist but I don't know about them - if so > apologies. > But remember - the people concerned are just interested in using good > technology - they really don't want to know about the Web.
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