- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:28:04 -0700
- To: Irfan Shah <irfan_shah@hotmail.com>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Irfan Shah wrote: > "User friendly tools are produced that read and write RDF" > These tools should > [1] Communicate using simple, non-technical language > [2] Offer prompts that dynamically react to a user's input > [3] Points [1] and [2] to be deployed in applications that aid > both users looking for information AND users describing their web sites. I think such a tool would be a semantic web browser (SWB) . The question arisis, then, what does the semantic web look like to a human such that we can browse it ? Well I suggest it looks something like [1] with labeled descriptions under topics. But here is the problem: even if there were a lot of pages that contained RDF descriptions, you would still not get as coherant a presentation as you see at the ILRT site. The solution to this problem, i think, lies in memory. A semantic web browser should remember what it reads - translation: it puts the RDF in a local database. Then all the information my SWB ever encounters about some subject can be shown to me in one coherant presentation when i point my SWB at that subject. [1] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/roads/subject-listing/stands.html > Is this a useful exercise? Too obvious? Off the mark? Keep going? Please do :) <signature syntax='SVO'> Topic: Seth Russell working today on: Bulk mail for (Speak To Me Catalog) needs help with: SWB authorof: http://www.RobustAI.net/ai/symknow.htm Topic: Speak To Me Catalog URL: http://www.SpeakToMeCatalog.com description: products that talk class: web shopping Topic: SWB anagramof: Semantic Web Browser coinedin: thisDocument </signature>
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