Hello Ian!

> I heard the interview too. It was cool (and slightly weird) to hear "semantic 
> web" discussed on prime-time news, but I thought that Tim could have used a 
> more compelling example. The interviewer didn't seem overly impressed by 
> Tim's "find me music by people born within 100 miles of my location". OTOH, 
> it's hard to come up with really compelling examples to use with 
> non-specialists. Which examples does anyone else use to get the idea of LOD 
> across in the mainstream?
>

Actually, I often use this one along with other
"things-that-we-can-do-now" music-related use-cases, as I find people
tends to like it: anyone would have struggled with its iTunes (or
whatever) library at least once. I often find that use cases work
better when it relates to things the public experienced in the past.
Big sci-fi use-cases tend to work a bit less.

I had the feeling the journalist *was* actually impressed by this use-case, btw?

Cheers
y


> Ian
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: 09 July 2008 10:27
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>> Subject: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4
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>>
>> TimBL was on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning (the
>> BBCs prime morning news/current affairs radio programme)
>> talking about the Semantic Web, and specifically mentions
>> Linking Open Data:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7496000/7496976.stm
>>
>> Nice :)
>>
>> --
>> Tom Heath
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