On 10/7/09 12:23, Juan Sequeda wrote:
Steve is right.
If I am not wrong, when TBL gave his talk at CERN for the 20th
aniversary of the web, he said that he was amazed that people were
hacking HTML by hand. He never expected it.
Now... we are the geeks doing RDF, conneg, linked data by hand... In a
couple of years we will create tools for the non-geeks
We have to learn from our history and not get ahead of ourselves.
RDF has been a W3C Recommendation since February, 1999. The RDF work
went public in Oct 1997.
A lot has happened since then...
Definitely we've done a lot of hacker-grade stuff in the meantime. But
tools for going mainstream are getting overdue! Even tools for
developers: eg. regular Redland builds on Windows; a solid packaged Ruby
library, etc.
Re tools for publishing, given the fiddlyness of doing RDF right, my
vote is for everything that allows tools on one site to post RDF into
another. I've suggested before that AtomPub + OAuth would be a plausible
starting point, but I'm open to suggestions.
Re non-geeks, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ is a must-watch...
cheers,
Dan
