- From: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:13:41 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- CC: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Seems to me that Danny's email is pretty straightforward: what is the utility of all of these billions of triples of (primarily) linked data that are being published on an almost daily basis? What can/are people doing with them that are impacting lives or jobs or what have you? We've made huge strides in publishing data, but it seems (to Danny, though I can't say that I disagree) that useful ways to consume the published data are still lacking. Which would lead me to question: 1) is that proposition true? if not, what are the useful ways to consume linked data? 2) if the proposition is true, why? does it have to do with the quality of the data? the content of the data? the access mechanisms available? lack of problems to be solved? a dearth of UX or application design perspectives that overlap with linked data awareness? is there a lack of business models to drive people to build useful applications? ... Lee On 4/16/2010 10:47 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > Danny, I agree, Some things certainly do seem annoying. For example, I > keep getting these weird emails from some crazy guy who talks apparently > at random about kennels and peas and other completely disconnected > topics, if that is indeed what they are, all apparently (to coin a > phrase) full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. > > Have you ever thought of, like, expressing what you want to say in, > like, connected English sentences that mean something? > > Pat Hayes > > > On Apr 16, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: > >> I know I got a bit snarly the other night, but some things do seem >> annoying. I wish to know where the nearest kennels are, that could >> work. For another example, the life sustaining drugs. Where it is best >> to plant my peas (too late). Datasets... where is the crossover? >> >> Folks have been really good at exposing things, but the utility is way >> behind. >> >> A million triples or when I should plant tomato seeds..? >> >> I see only minor signs of utility, serendipity seems such a long way off. >> >> Grumbling, >> Danny. >> >> >> -- >> http://danny.ayers.name >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > > > > >
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