Re: Semantic Web Interest Group now closed

I prefer Linked Data as a term (I've never met anyone who understands what the Semantic Web is outside of people who are actually creating it whereas Linked Data is self-explanatory, at least in terms of getting over the first hurdle), but does Linked Data have close enough to the same meaning to satisfy everyone?


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From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
Sent: 15 October 2018 16:09
To: xueyuan; semantic-web@w3.org
Subject: Re: Semantic Web Interest Group now closed

On 10/15/2018 10:49 AM, xueyuan wrote:
 > This message is to inform you that the Semantic Web Interest Group
 > is now closed, [ . . . . ]
 > With the introduction of Community Groups we now encourage the
 > participants in the IG forum to
 > establish Community Groups to continue the conversations.

Given that the semantic-web@w3.org email list has served the community
very well, I think it would be helpful for continuity if a Community
Group could take over the existing email list.  Is this possible?  And
if so, does this mean that we should now create such a community group?

My one hesitation in continuing with the existing list is that the
choice of the name "Semantic Web" has long been recognized as a
marketing mistake, so perhaps it is time to say goodbye to it.  "Linked
Data" is a substantially better term.

Thoughts?

David Booth