Jason
An EU consortium? Is this going to end like the Lisbon treaty? :)
Easy target, but beware of not being too sarcastic here about European
projects. :-)
First because there are a lot of European people around this space, and
moreover a lot of Semantic Web related projects have been and will be
funded by the EU European Research Area, under successive Framework
Programs (currently FP7). I'm happy to say that a good part of my
(small) company's R&D has been supported by such projects for years,
where companies big or small work along with academic research centers.
Granted, as you mention, the visibility of those projects is not always
what it should be, although there is always a Work Package called
"Dissemination and Outreach" for each of them ... and the EU projects
Web is really tricky to navigate!
Thanks for the tip, my research did not uncover them. Maybe because the
name is obtuse?
Given the reference to a razor (even a conceptual one), I would say
"acute" rather than "obtuse" ... European medieval culture, that is. :-P
While Open GUID isn't a good brand name for a t-shirt,
it's at least evocative of it's singular purpose.
Indeed.
I will reach out to them. Though I will say there's a reason I've been
an agile developer for the better part of a decade...
I think this is an interesting confrontation. Of course European
Projects are all but agile. But they are funded. ;-)
Bernard
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Subject: Re: Announcing Open GUID
From: "Giovanni Tummarello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, September 25, 2008 11:21 am
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Hi Jason,
i believe you're persuing exactly the same goal as the Okkam project
(http://okkam.org).
unlike okkam however you have something up alrady at a nice visible,
uncluttered website.
This mail of mine is just so that you know tha tther eis this common
research effort and in fact to say that if you're very motivated to
pursue this it might make sense to talk to the Okkam people and maybe
fit in the works there, afterall there is eu funding behind this
effort so you might find yourself leveraging quite some manpower (e.g.
matching libraries).
.. on the other hands you might want to decide to stay agile and
independant :-) your pick.
Giovanni
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