- From: glenn mcdonald <glenn@furia.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 06:35:38 -0400
- To: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Cc: Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com>, glenn mcdonald <glenn@furia.com>, Ryan Kohl <ryanckohl@gmail.com>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
> If the opinions dominating this discussion are > representative of the community, then the > Semantic Web is bound to failure, because > you seem to completely ignore > > 1. adoption issues, in particular ergonomics > and cognitive aspects, If it's me you mean by that, then a) I'm the antithesis of a representative of the Semantic Web community, and b) I'm not ignoring ergo-cognitive concerns, I'm *driven* by them. My point is very specifically not that people should be looking at numerical codes, but that in the case of data-graph representation and querying, people shouldn't be looking at "codes" at all. To me semi-human-readable isn't good enough, either. URLs are a great example: nobody wants humans to have to type IP addresses. But neither should we really want people to have to type URLs. And indeed, for all but the most trivial site-level URLs, people mostly don't. They send links (increasingly via URL shorteners), or they use Google.
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