Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-16 Thread Alexander Baxevanis
Hi Dan, something that was not really mentioned so far is that there are still two major problems associated with the deployment of the Semantic Web. First of all, there is the issue of trust. Not all information can be equally trusted, so your traditional Semantic Web shopping scenario would

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-16 Thread Tillier Ivor
I'm afraid I've had a delay in getting this off so some has already been covered... I understood the SW that Dan originally referred to be the SW that facilitates the application of globally understood meaning to the data. By having this common understanding, one can make then make

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-16 Thread Katie Albers
At 11:19 AM + 1/16/08, Dan wrote: Thanks for your responses, I find this a really interesting topic and your thoughts have been equally interesting. Here are a couple more thoughts of mine below: snip In general, my question regarding the death of the web page was trying to stimulate

[IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-15 Thread Dan
I have been reading a lot about the semantic web of late and am wondering what it will hold for the future of online and more specifically for us (Ixd/IA/UE etc etc). For instance it appears to me that if the semantic web becomes a reality then data becomes the most important thing online and not

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-15 Thread Gloria Petron
I think the rise of the semantic web will coincide with the shift to hand-held devices as the primary data source. Eventually your hand-held devices will not only be able to speak to you, but they'll know when you're in the mood to hear what they have to say. Wireless providers will form

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-15 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Dan wrote: I have been reading a lot about the semantic web of late and am wondering what it will hold for the future of online and more specifically for us (Ixd/IA/UE etc etc). Oh this will be a fun thread... 8^) I wouldn't worry or sweat about the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-15 Thread Celeste Cefalu
I would argue that data already is the most important thing online, not websites. Web sites are the containers for our data. Seems to me that the most innovative things happening and yet to happen in the online space are in the form of platform based systems that deliver data to the user in a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantic future

2008-01-15 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
I got a message privately that made a point I might be confusing the semantic web with something else. (Probably something closer to what most designers know as semantic markup.) It's a good point, so I figure I'd write my response to the list in case I am. -- I think you must be