- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:19:48 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 18 April 2010 01:31, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > > Le 18 avr. 2010 à 03:47, Danny Ayers a écrit : >> when do I plant my tomatoes? is much more in scope >> we have the raw data I'm sure, perhaps even linked. but I still cannot >> sit down and get an answer to such questions without a huge amount of >> human heuristics. I expect better from the technology > > what about this > http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&ss=2&mt=all&adv=1&w=all&q=tomato+garden+italy&m=text Very good - I can probably figure out the answer from that, but it is still relying so much on human heuristics. > It's not exactly structured, but that would be possible to make it a bit better. Social networks capture what people do in some areas of the world. Very good point. The counterpoint to structured data is the real-world stuff we rely on day to day. > For example, I'm pretty sure it would be possible to track the progress of cherry blossoms through the seasons depending on the latitude in Japan. > http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/News/sakura2009.html Very sweet. > Not many gardeners in the south of France ;) > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+plantations+near%3A%22Nice%2C+France%22+within%3A100km > > twitter annotation feature could help in the future. hmm... > The other solutions is to pimp above the fence of someone else :) Absolutely! But I want my machine to do that for me - Connolly's bane and so on. Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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