- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:45:53 +0200
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Lots of different ideas. Still the one thread. About time someone change the subject. But if it gets up to a hundred, I have something to tell my neighbours. On 5 April 2010 14:37, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > 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. > > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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