Re: call to arms

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.
>
>



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