- From: Ryan Shaw <ryanshaw@sims.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:26:35 -0700
- To: danny666@virgilio.it
- Cc: Adam Souzis <adam-l@souzis.com>, "Mazzilli, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.mazzilli@hp.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: > Adam Souzis wrote: > >> Mazzilli, Rodrigo wrote: >> >>> HTML 1.0 was probably not the best hypertext markup language we >>> could have invented but it was simple and straightforward! Even a >>> 12-year-old child could understand it and (boom!) suddenly >>> everyone was writing web pages. >> >> Is the same level of simplicity possible for the SemWeb? > > Regarding 12 year olds, I think they would be receptive to the basic > idea of "describing stuff" and the taxonomies, perhaps less so with > ontologies, joining the descriptions together and (waaah!) > Description Logics. For general adoption, I reckoned there's a lot > can be gained from specific applications that are designed directly > for the end user - Semaview's smart PIM material hits a good spot, > and Storymill's approach is marvellous, check the graphics here: > http://storymill.net/ I strongly agree. People love personal libraries--look at the time and effort poured into organizing record or book or photo collections. Look at the work volunteers put into MusicBrainz--its use of RDF hasn't stopped open-source developers from embracing it. I was disappointed that Kendall Clark's recent "Hacking the Library" series didn't focus more on the fun that can be had with RDF for that kind of stuff... Ryan
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