- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:19:59 +0200
- To: Benjamin Nowack <bnowack@appmosphere.com>
- CC: "H Hollis, Archaeology" <hh3845@bristol.ac.uk>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
"How would you explain the Semantic Web to your grandparents?"
I don't personally think this in itself is much of a challenge, unless
the grandparent in question -
a) associates SW notions with pre-web ("failed") AI, or
b) is an XML developer and assumes RDF/XML is the defining part of the
technologies
The easiest solution by far would be to point to a selection of end-user
applications that fully interoperate using SW technologies and make
significant use of RDF/OWL inferencing. This still isn't possible yet,
despite the large number of tools now available. There really isn't much
visible for the end user.
btw, what would be a very difficult challenge, in my own case at least,
would be to receive feedback over whether the explanation had been
understood. I propose a simple XML application, After Life ML,
consisting of two constructs:
<knock/> for true
<knock/><knock/> for false *
This would of course use the Jabber IM (Immortal Messaging) protocol.
Perhaps the Device Independence WG could be tasked with creating a Ouija
Board-based HTTP client. In this case the medium truly would be the
message.
Cheers,
Danny.
* Not to be confused with the Horse Enumeration Markup Language:
<clop/> = 1
<clop/><clop/> = 2 etc.
PS. Sorry.
--
Raw
http://dannyayers.com
Received on Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:23:39 UTC