All, An abstract for June's Event on The Semantic Web.
The Role of Design on the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is the next evolution of the World Wide Web. Instead of relying on linked documents - webpages - it relies on "Linked Data." While this new paradigm will help people find information and make decisions on the Internet more efficiently, it provides a questionable future for the web design community. It could mean a smaller focus on design (both the IxDA and IA kind), and more of a focus on large, interconnected databases with a few general purpose applications for aggregation. However, I believe the Semantic Web should instead be encouraging to the design community. It allows us to return to the fundamentals of design and remember why humans will always prefer the presentation over the spreadsheet: Design tells us the story behind the information we seek. My aim is to describe design's distinctive purpose in the future of the Internet, and how the Semantic Web's focus on data, instead of documents, will help this purpose to succeed. Hope you can join us! St. Louis IxDA Ning Social Network: http://saintlouisixda.ning.com/ Thanks! Brad Ty Nunnally Interaction Designer Blog: http://bradsramblings.com/blog Twitter: http://twitter.com/bnunnally 618.580.1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42696 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
