Re: twitter's annotation and metadata

the main problem is gonna be the cognitive dissonance over whether a  
tweet is an information or non-information resource and how many URIs  
are needed to fully rep a tweet...

so, who's gonna volunteer to publish the linked data version of  
Twitter data, a la db/wiki[pedia] ...



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On 16 Apr 2010, at 10:28 AM, "adasal" <adam.saltiel@gmail.com> wrote:

> twitter have a hard task as they have to take into account usage.  
> The community have evolved their own, inconsistent, usage - for  
> instance this tweet
> greenhaze #ff big up: @_Jameslloyd @AlysFowler @brightgreenscot  
> @AskTheClimateQ @faisalislam @valerieoriordan @peopleandplanet  
> @38_degrees @krishgm
> compared to
> craftygreenpoet Quiz party manifesto  writers, Ed Miliband, Oliver  
> Letwin and Danny Alexander. Join in now http://bit.ly/9eYpSI  
> #38degrees #ukelection
>
> Notice the #ff hash tag and the phrase 'big up:' in the first tweet  
> as well as the many references (@ tags).
> So a popular sign #ff has been invented and there are different  
> styles of posting, of drawing attention.
> The developers of a name space might have to take all of these  
> issues into account, for instance the range of intentions of posters  
> of which 'drawing attention' may just be one, or be a super set.   
> Or, alternatively, just create a basic name space with a few, lose,  
> defined entities?
> I think that the problem would be to define a semantics that allows  
> users to continue to invent usage.
> Or will invention be seen to peter out anyway as people settle on a  
> few useful 'tools' such as the #ff hash tag?
>
> Of course, the other side of introducing semantics is that it could  
> increase the expressive scope of what is an incredibly restricted  
> format. But twitter might find that counter productive. The  
> restriction, which is a product of a lack of common symbols that  
> might be used knowingly to extend it, is the mother of invention.  
> Often that invention lies in a sexual direction (or products or  
> money). With regard the sexual it extends into that realm well  
> because the mystery of not knowing is coupled with the necessity to  
> invent 'something' on top of what is really a well known human area  
> - the play of ambiguity suits the subject matter making it seem  
> racier than perhaps it really is.
>
> A formalism might destroy this though?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Adam Saltiel
>
>
> On 16 April 2010 02:52, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hopefully everybody has heard that Twitter will release some  
> annotation feature which will allow to add metadata to each tweet.
>
> I just read this blog post http://scobleizer.com/2010/04/15/twitter-annotations/

>
> and the following caught my attention: "There aren’t any rules as to 
>  what can be in this metadata. YET. All the devs I’ve talked to say  
> they expect Twitter to “bless” namespaces so the industry will  
> have one common way to describe common things"
>
> I'm just wondering what people here think about this.
>
>
> Juan Sequeda
> +1-575-SEQ-UEDA
> www.juansequeda.com
>

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