Re: renamed to Web Data was: new semantic web stackexchange proposal opened

BTW: My favorite "legacy question" is the folllowing:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/218091/which-stackexchange-shoud-i-use-to-ask-about-rdf-and-sparql-datasets

Best,
Christian

Am Sa., 8. Dez. 2018 um 16:32 Uhr schrieb Christian Chiarcos <
christian.chiarcos@web.de>:

> Hi,
>
> very nice initiative, and I appreciate renaming it to web data. Just added
> by 5 questions, too.
> BTW: What we should probably do (to increase the number of relevant
> questions) is to identify StackExchange questions that actually belong
> here. There are plenty of them, in webmasters, open-data, gis,
> softwareengineering, etc., just search for RDF, etc. ;)
>
> Best,
> Christian
>
> Am Sa., 8. Dez. 2018 um 14:44 Uhr schrieb Henry Story <
> henry.story@bblfish.net>:
>
>> I have renamed the proposal to Web Data, as a stack exchange site needs
>> to be as wide as possible
>> to get people from all areas to contribute expertise. After all it is the
>> questions there that select
>> the experts, and experts don't want to follow too many different sites.
>>
>> I can only post 5 questions myself.  One needs 40 or more voted up by 10
>> for this to start.
>> So if you can think of practical questions (including in XML and JSON)
>> that you have
>> had please post them there.
>>
>> My guess is that it will be a great place for students to come to.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> PS. There could be a question as to how it would help stack exchange if
>> it used linked data.
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 8 Dec 2018, at 10:22, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 8 Dec 2018, at 00:33, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 12/7/18 10:18 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> >>> Perhaps the trick for more pragmatic answers would be to open
>> >>>   {rdf/semweb}.stackexchange.com <http://stackexchange.com>
>> >>
>> >> Good idea!  I think rdf.stackexchange.com would be best.  Will you
>> take the lead on getting this set up?
>> >
>> > I have started a proposal for a new stack exchange group
>> >
>> >
>> https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/120833/semantic-web?referrer=8LVIlli-Jxo2REi_fi0Evw2
>> >
>> > I have called it "Semantic Web" for the moment because in order to get
>> a good range of experts one needs
>> > to cast a very wide net (eg: maths.stackexchange.com). RDF itself
>> could lean people to think we are just
>> > dealing with a serialization format, where we want to incorporate
>> SPARQL, reasoning, linked data publication,
>> > OWL, libraries,  algorithms for efficiently manipulating rdf,
>> publishing data on the web, developing ontologies, etc...
>> > We have a wide range of experts that publish in journals, and teach
>> students at universities under
>> > the semantic web heading who can help.
>> >
>> > To become public we need to gather a large enough community of experts
>> to participate, and
>> > we need 50 interesting questions.
>> >
>> > See the rules here:
>> >
>> >  https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
>> >
>> > "the goal is to come up with at least 40 questions that embody the
>> topic's scope. When at least 40 questions have a score of at least ten net
>> votes (up minus down), then the proposal is considered "defined.""
>> >
>> > So it's really up to people here.
>> >
>> > I think a semantic web stack exchange makes sense, as the semantic web
>> is too practical for
>> > maths.stackexchange.com and too far away from many in computer science
>> which has both
>> > {cs,cstheory}.stackexchange.com.
>> >
>> > But we'll see. If we get enough people from this list, we can then
>> spread the word through academia
>> > and industry.
>> >
>> > This mailing list could then refer to answers developed there, and as a
>> a fallback for questions that
>> > are difficult to ask. StackExchange tends to push people to be very
>> clear with their questions, when
>> > it is sometimes that is not so easy to do.
>> >
>> > Perhaps Web Data would be a more generic term even...
>> >
>> > Henry Story
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> David Booth
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>