Re: Updated Semantic Web Interest Group page

Hi Dan, 

I wonder why the main interest page : 

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/

links to : 

http://esw.w3.org/RdfAndSql

under the heading of Relational Databases and RDF. It comes across a bit limiting, I would suggest a link to a page like "RDF and SPARQL" which could include all of the technologies linked to on the RdfAndSql page, along with other non-SQL based solutions to storing and querying RDF. Off the top of my head, stuff like Neo4j or 4store (excuse plug) (i.e. non-SQL based RDF storage solutions), and stuff like RAP, RDFLIB, and so on... Perhaps a page like : http://esw.w3.org/SparqlImplementations would make more sense? 

Just a thought ...

Mischa 
 
On 2 Jun 2010, at 10:13, Dan Brickley wrote:

> I've just minor-updated the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group page,
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
> 
> Generally this is a pretty static document, but I wanted to improve
> access to more dynamic sites. So I've linked ESW and W3C SemWeb
> standards Wikis, the http://planetrdf.com/ blog aggregator, and am
> open to suggestions for other useful links.
> 
> I have also made some effort to link all the various informal
> vocabularies hosted on w3.org that have in some way come out of
> collaborations amongst SWIG participants: geo, rdfical, vcard-in-rdf,
> the foaf+ssl cert and rsa vocabs, exif in rdf, and the recent org
> schema. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Probably that
> part of the page ought to be moved to the SemWeb standards wiki, since
> there's no need for an editorial bottleneck and there is so much going
> on 'out there' now that I couldn't hope to track everything even if I
> had the time to try.
> 
> In some ways this informal community serves as an 'incubator
> incubator', and I've tried to show some of that story in the page by
> linking to a few of the W3C Incubator groups that have come out of
> more informal SWIG discussions. Some of those XGs (eg. around RDF and
> databases, or multimedia semantics) have in turn gone on to give rise
> to full W3C Working Groups. SKOS followed a similar path, beginning
> with a community discussion list sponsored by the old SWAD-Europe
> project (this was before we had incubators).
> 
> While I don't want to create an impossible-to-maintain page, I think
> it's important to show that W3C groups don't happen in a vacuum, and
> that informal collaboration here and nearby can provide an "on-ramp"
> to the full W3C standards track, usually these days via an incubator
> group. If you've suggestions for how the page could do that better,
> let me know.
> 
> So, what are the key sites in the SemWeb scene that you find yourself
> using on a daily or weekly basis? If they're useful to you, they're
> likely useful to others here too. I can't promise to link everything
> so please forgive me if your link suggestions aren't all adopted, but
> if the SWIG page is missing a few key links they ought to be added...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan
>

Received on Wednesday, 2 June 2010 11:06:32 UTC