- From: Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:09:46 -0600
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CACvcBVrQJ1JW56v1q+gDSxEPbPFL6Ywaa5kw5SiKUUen0mOdiA@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Semantic Web Interest Group, Short Version: Since my post on the public-lod mailing list announcing http://adistributedeconomy.blogspot.com, I manged to organize my thinking into a document that is about 20 pages long with over 100 references. A few have shown interest who are associated with my alma mater, as well as another outside. I have envisioned that in order to grow the most it might be best to be involved with one of the major research groups with the semantic web. But short of that, it may be appropriate to see if more people with expertise in that area could look at it. With the way things are going, I expect to have something ready within about a month. Long Version: I remember posting to the public-lod mailing list about a year ago about my distributed economy blog (http://adistributedeconomy.blogspot.com). It received more interest than I expected, and was unable to keep up with the comments and to adequately answer everyone's questions. I chose largely to retreat and study more myself to develop my ideas further. They seemed to largely resemble ideas presented here, and may have been less original than I thought. Tim Berners-Lee, in Weaving the Web, speaks about an economic system enabled by the semantic web that may need to have some form of control. I suspect others here are also familiar with such potential. It turns out that I may have incorrectly named my blog. Maybe it should have been named network economy or peer-to-peer economy. Distributed does not seem to adequately reflect the network topology as peer-to-peer seems to include an additional component, that of decentralization. Since my post, I surprised myself and managed to organize my thinking into a document that is about 20 pages long with over 100 references. My graduate background in Chemical Engineering brings a different experience and skill-set that helps me to appreciate the web in its birthplace in Geneva, Switzerland. I am looking for opportunities where there is a good chance that I will succeed in my efforts in hopes of making the world more resilient and create a better environment for researchers and creative people. I also know that the University where I did my studies at is looking to grow, and recently there was a lot of enthusiasm for open access and online learning. I'd like to see them adopt semantic web technologies and participate in their development. I thus far have seen record of one or two speakers who may have interacted with the University mention it. I have seen interest in my project from those familiar with my institution as well as another with deep domain knowledge of the semantic web, but I imagine that it might be best to have others with semantic web knowledge look at it. With the way things are going, I expect to have something ready within about a month. -Brent
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