Olaf has brought a good question to the table. I would assume that
Linked Data is not well known in the "web 2.0" community, IMO.
Furthermore, this is somethig that I personally experience everyday
with the community of developers in Austin. That is why we have
started a sig group: semantic web Austin (www.semanticwebaustin.org)
I'm going to take this opportunity to share with everybody here that
Tom Heath will be coming to Austin next month and delivering a
tutorial on Linked data, specially for those developers who are not
aware of it.
So maybe we can't answer Olaf's question yet. But I know that there is
a list somewhere of commercial applications that are using/consuming
Linked Data (can somebody point us to the link?) I would sugget that
this would indicate the awareness of developers and companies about
Linked Data
Juan Sequeda
www.juansequeda.com
On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Tom Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Olaf,
What's your overall goal? It might be that there's another way of
answering your underlying question or achieving this goal than such a
study (which if it doesn't exist may be costly in time and money to
perform).
Tom.
2009/1/22 Danny Ayers <[email protected]>:
2009/1/21 Olaf Hartig <[email protected]>:
Does someone know a study that investigates whether people from
different
communities know about linked data and are aware of the benefits?
I've not seen anything, but if the W3C has resources for another
Education and Outreach group in the near future, I'd suggest such a
study as a deliverable.
As far as I can tell there is awareness in some of the scientific
communities, though as a message for the Web at large linked data
seems still to be be limited to a subset of the semweb community.
Having said that, places like Read/WriteWeb and programmableweb.com
do
expose running applications to the Web 2.0 community. Also RDFa
deployment seems to be growing in general, and that's good data.
Cheers,
Danny.
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