Hi Ian, > Which examples does > anyone else use to get the idea of LOD across in the mainstream?
One I example I've been telling recently is around travel. "Find me the cheapest/fastest route from my place in Berlin to Florence combining busses, trains, flights, etc." For a human, that's quite a hard problem, and the best route might not be easy to find. Machines could do so much better... Cheers, Georgi -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK) > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4 > > > Hi Tom, > 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? > > Ian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Heath > > Sent: 09 July 2008 10:27 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4 > > > > > > 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 > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Ian Dickinson http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Ian_Dickinson > HP Laboratories Bristol mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hewlett-Packard Limited Registered No: 690597 England > Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN
