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 -- Joe Crawford Web Building, Blogging, Product Evangelist e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://artlung.com/blog/ - being myself aim: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sandiegoblog.com - daily san diego t: +1 (619) 516-4550 http://websandiego.org/ - community f: +1 (928) 752-6311 http://lamphost.net/ - get web hosting _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.