At 05:02 AM 10/10/00 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote: >It's about a year since I shut down RDF-DEV, my old list for RDF >developers, and about a year since RDF mailing list traffic started >taking off seriously. For the record, it's almost exactly 3 years since >RDF was launched on the world. IMHO, www-rdf-interest has in the >last last year proved an interesting and admirably flame-free place to >discuss RDF apps and specs, but has tended to (a) revisit old topics >with no closure / sense of progress, and (b) "geek out" somewhat, to >detriment of those folk interested more in applications than >specification. I would like to suggest that this should not be seen as a sign of failure. RDF is a whole new area for a lot of people, and I think one of the most valuable services performed is to bring newcomers to a common level of understanding. This is not, of itself, sufficient, but I do think it's necessary as a springboard for future development of RDF and its applications, in which I think we all have an interest. (I could cite examples from other standards related activity in which there has been a long gestation period of little visible progress, but effective community building, followed by bursts of extreme productivity it terms of creating new specifications.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)Received on Tuesday, 10 October 2000 05:02:35 UTC
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