I work with humanities people and No one wants to create metadata. RDF,
they don't understand. Believe me, I've tried (triplets, why is that so
hard?). If they do, they don't understand (a) the rigidity imposed by
the structuration and (b) the level of abstraction needed to describe
the domain. That's why some kind of structured, hierarchical
metadata-on-the-fly from crowdsourcing is so interesting. What's needed
is structures (data gathering plus hierarchy plus reputation system) put
in place where domain experts and other interested parties can check the
results. By results, I mean not only getting the concepts (most likely a
controlled vocabulary) right but also the relationships among concepts
right.
Renee
SteveC wrote:
On 6 May 2009, at 15:56, Sean Gillies wrote:
On May 6, 2009, at 4:41 PM, P Kishor wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4 May 2009, at 08:44, Ed Parsons wrote:
The general scepticism here I think is well placed, semantic based
systems
always demo well, the key to more widespread adoption is the
automation of
the still largely manual creation of ontological relationships.
But one day
I'm sure this will work, after-all TBL is usually right.
Come on, nobody believes the web of data stuff anymore surely. If
they did
someone would do something like RDF but actually usable and easily
implementable in actual HTML.
That would be RDFa, or GRDDL.
Yeah so I just looked through the wikipedia pages on both, they feel a
bit unloved. They don't look like a whole lot of fun, and the chicken
and egg of no data to crawl and no crawler for the data must be
frustrating.
Has anyone spent any time on what would make people actually mark this
stuff up?
It seems HTML5 has told RDFa to FOAD.
Nice.
Best
Steve
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