from one who is close to the ‘action’
Danny Ayers in his ‘raw’ blog: ‘It’s my opinion that only a tiny proportion of the web needs to have rich Semantic Web capabilities for the web as a whole to gain significantly. A handful of superpeers could make a huge difference.’ He also advocates lots of small, local knowledge domain approaches.
March 30, 2007 at 9:53 am
[Jeremy O writes]
Thanks, Mike, that’s a good blog and chock full of pointers I want to follow up!
I’m really happy to see how the current state of SW research has people like this talking seamlessly about hardcore SW back-end RDF triples, and easy-to-implement, “front-end” microformats. It’s encouraging to think that the latter might become (are becoming, in fact) a powerful but lightweight solution for some of the more wide-spread knowledge domains. It remains to be seen whether they can actually fit the bill for “small, local knowledge domain approaches”, though - it might turn out that we need to resort to the more “traditional” back-end approach, perhaps my experiments will help me to decide my own thoughts on this! Which reminds me, I’d best get something up for you to look at.
Oh, by the way, I found something I’d somehow missed on the microformats site before: http://microformats.org/wiki/workofart-brainstorming. The project appears to have been fallow for a year but there’s something useful there. It takes a somewhat different route to that which I’d been working on (which places quite a bit of emphasis on the format as a pointer to more structured data), but (a) I was looking at basing mine on DC or CDWA Lite too, and (b) they’re also thinking about questions of integration with exisiting MFs like hCard.