- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:05:00 -0700
- CC: rdf <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Greg FitzPatrick wrote: > Back to square one. We still have to "sell" the technology - if only within > the panopoly. Survival-by-committee. I agree we need to sell RDF to the panopoly, to the tool makers, to the pioneers of the Semantic Web. But if it remains only a toy for this geekish clan, then, imho, it is still-born. User friendly killer applications are what's going to make this useful and should provide the context for us geeks to make our decisions. If we make decisions based on the assumption that people are going to write RDF, we are signing its death warrant. Here is an example of a application for RDF that would help weave the semantic web: A java script fired by a button that anyone could put on a web page. The button reads the RDF description (or metadata description) on the page and shows it in a user friendly format in a new browser window. Meanwhile the script transmits the RDF description to a centralized search engine. The centralized search engine (amoung a host of other things) could provide user friendly templates via web forms to create the RDF for the page authors. Everybody should use the same graphic button to advertise the concept. This is similar to the view/Page-info of the browsers but far more detailed. I've always wondered what would motivate a geek to include a RDF description of their page when nobody can see it except other geeks and most search engines are not interested in it. -- Seth Russell http://RobustAI.net/MyNetwork/index.html http://robustAI.net/MyNetwork/StickeyCyberMolecules.html Http://RobustAi.net/Ai/Conjecture.htm
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