On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Andy Carvin wrote:
> fyi, MIT Technology Review has an interview with TB-L in its latest
> issue. The very first question they ask him is basically, "why is no one
> particularly excited about this new work of yours?" So the article is
> able to delve into a bit more of a detailed response than what he gave
> during his speech.
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp

There's so much hype and mystique about what the Semantic Web could
be, might be, will be -- I am particularly taken with a new series of
articles (still unfolding) on xml.com about Paul Ford's work on
actually trying to *build* semantic web applications.

* Screenscraping the Senate:
  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/01/hack-congress.html

* Uncle Sam's Semantic Web:
  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/15/egov.html

Quoting...
"The United States government and the Semantic Web are a perfect match:
imagine all of those senators and representatives, each query-able by age,
party affiliation, bills proposed, committee membership, and voting
record. For the last few years, I've wanted to collect as much data on the
U.S. government as I could, convert it to RDF, and build a site and a web
service that make it possible to explore that data. This will be my goal
over the next year, and I'll document my progress here on XML.com."
...
"Does creating a Semantic Web of data make it easier to analyze and
explore that data in new ways? In addition to testing the Semantic Web
concept, if all goes well, I'll have a nicely organized map of the U.S.
government, structured using publicly available ontologies, available in a
single, reliable format (RDF), which anyone can incorporate into their own
Semantic Web projects. It seems worth trying."

        Joe
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