- From: Steven Harms <sgharms@stevengharms.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:36:30 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
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*Note: Vocabulary choice might be off below. Read with maximal flexibility* After reading up on RDF, vocabulary authoring, and getting to know a number of vocabularies, I want to populate a collection. However, when I make my first steps in this regard I find myself both hindered and confused by lack of tooling. *Interface: *As an example, I'd expect to be able to find a tool that lets one import vocabularies to the tool as the available options with authoring statements. Given the "triple," I'd expect to select a subject, predicate, object as chosen from those data provided by the cached vocabularies. When I look for such a thing (https://www.w3.org/wiki/AuthoringToolsForRDF), the tools are mostly > 10 years old with few updates and no *de facto* standard. In general, most searches to find an authoring platform point to dead links or bit-rotted pages. Ultimately, this leads me to ask whether my understanding is correct. Questions: 1. Is authoring like I described above desirable, expected? Is it hoped that individuals would think "Hm, instead of a bulleted list in a Google Doc, I'll add these notes using (sought RDF tool)." Or is the expectation that some other storage / interface / solution that emits RDF will be the primary interface? 2. Assuming individual authorship *is* a desired thing, is the "Interface" I described above a reasonable sketch of the user experience? 3. Assuming individual authorship as desirable and the UX as appropriate, why doesn't that (seem to?) exist? While I doubt that RDF Collections will be used for casual shopping-lists etc., there are a number of places where they ought be useful in both home and business (e.g. `home:photoAlbum2009A schema:about lifeEvents:tripToLondon`) and being able to author them in a pleasant UI that enriches a collection in a virtuous cycle seems to be the future this group is striving toward. Clarifications will be greatly appreciated, Steven -- Steven G. Harms PGP: E6052DAF <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x337AF45BE6052DAF>
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