What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Georgi Kobilarov
Yesterday issued a challenge on my blog for ideas for concrete linked open data applications. Because talking about concrete apps helps shaping the roadmap for the technical questions for the linked data community ahead. The real questions, not the theoretical ones... Richard MacManus of

Re: mailing-lists in semantic-land

2010-04-09 Thread Story Henry
I am not sure exactly how the thread by Carmen got going, or where it appeared from, but it seems pretty interesting. Note that on the w3c mail archives there are X-Archived-At headers with URLs for each mail. I don't understand why not every mailing list does that, as it is so clearly an

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Aldo Bucchi
Georgi you are mistaken. Links to resources or even simple things such as reusing labels are already saving me time and money when building apps for customers. in reality I get more than labels, I get maps, relations, etc which otherwise would have been costly to attain. Also, the

RE: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Georgi Kobilarov
Hi Aldo, Georgi you are mistaken. Links to resources or even simple things such as reusing labels are already saving me time and money when building apps for customers. well, do we then really need all that sophisticated rdf data? If it comes down to reusing labels? in reality I get more

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Adrian Walker
Hi All, Good question. Here's a description of an app about energy independence www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1.pdf and here is the same thing as a video www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm (Flash video with audio) You can also run the app itself, and get

RE: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Georgi Kobilarov
Hi Matthias, There are applications that re-use identifiers, and there are applications that use single, hand-picked data sources. But let's be honest, that's not using the linked data cloud. So, why's that? There must be a reason. Which part of the ecosystem sucks? I don't see

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Aldo Bucchi
Hi On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:45, Georgi Kobilarov georgi.kobila...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Aldo, Georgi you are mistaken. Links to resources or even simple things such as reusing labels are already saving me time and money when building apps for customers. well, do we then really need all that

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
2010/4/9 Georgi Kobilarov georgi.kobila...@gmx.de Hi Bernard, well, why did I ask people to write about their ideas for apps? My observation is that there are zero real apps using linked open data (i.e. data from the cloud). Not even a single one. Null. After 3 years of linking open

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Houle
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Georgi Kobilarov georgi.kobila...@gmx.dewrote: Let's be creative about stuff we'd build with the web of data. Assume the Linked Data Web would be there already, what would build? Lots of things: (1) A 'smart' encyclopedia that can reformat Wikipedia (and

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread François Dongier
I'm surprised, not to say puzzled, to see e-commerce popping us so late in this conversation. I think the first useful application of linked data will be an answer to questions such as Where can I find a product with such and such properties at the cheapest price? and What should I do this

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

2010-04-09 Thread Juan Sequeda
Francois, The problem is the lack of data. If there is not real time concert data plus weather forecast and hotel prices and availability, we can't create such a linked data application. I'm interested in seeing what people can create with the current linked open data PLUS other data. We need