- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:51:07 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
So basically no-one in the Semantic Web community has a clue about mailing lists. That is quite cool in itself. On 5 April 2010 14:45, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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