- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:29:19 -0500
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- CC: Ying Ding <dingying@indiana.edu>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: >> Irrespective, don't you think HTML or even better an RDF (re. your data >> sources) would be sort of congruent with this entire effort? Dan and others >> could have just slotted URIs into the RDF etc.. and the resource could just >> grow and evenly rid itself of its current contextual short-comings etc.. >> > > Absolutely. (The kind of data-heavy material Ying Ding has produced > would be an ideal candidate for expression in a data-oriented form). > > >> Sorry (for grumpy sounding comment), but PDFs really get under my skin as >> sole mechanism for transmitting data when conversation is about the Semantic >> Web Project etc.. Sadly, this realm is rife with PDF as sole information >> delivery mechanism, even when the conversation is actually about the "Web" >> (a medium not constructed around Linked PDF documents). >> > > Again, absolutely (and it annoys the tits off me too) - not only pdf > but also ps, and in the odd strange case MS doc format. > > Alas it seems academia is largely slow on the uptake when it comes to > publication. I'm sure this is just as frustrating for the individual > that wishes to be published as the rest-of-the-world that wants their > information. > > But then again, we still have printed matter... > Yeah, and the essence of open data access (pre and post Web) has been to yank those entities referenced in the printed matter into alternative projection surfaces, guided by context :-) Kingsley > Cheers, > Danny. > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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