On 12/14/10 10:59 AM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote:
Eating your own dog food and inviting others to dinner is not the
exclusive domain of software engineers only, as I discovered when
trying to come up with a new paradigm for building online communities
with social search capabilities for selected sectors industry or civil
society.
So it got me thinking about linked data and the semantic web, based on
the contents I have seen in emails from the past two years from the
two mailing lists fro the W3C to which I subscribe and read every
single day
One of the biggest problems we seem to have in getting linked data and
the semantic web to the main public is that "we" i.e. its promoters,
aficionados, gurus and developers and dedicated users are scattered
all over the place and on the internet.
Has anyone ever given thought to creating a portal site, which
combines some features of LinkedIn.com and Arxiv.org with online
directories, product exhibits and a "social search engine"?
Yes.
Only requirement will be obtaining a WebID [1] using your preferred
platform or provider.
And of course there would be the links to everything.
And the whole darn thing would be an excellent launching pad for new
start-ups and information hub for angel and corporate investors to
hunt for new projects to fund.
Build it and they will come.
Yes!
That's the Webby way of bootstrapping via Dogfood.
Is there any way we can get a collection of interested professionals,
existing groups and initiatives together to dream up the design and
blue print for such a thing and then build it?
There are a number of loosely coupled linked data spaces already, in
some cases people don't even know they are members of powerful data
spaces :-)
Links:
1. http://esw.w3.org/WebID -- WebID Information Page
2. http://kingsley.idehen.net/c/B7KZP -- Sampling from Cambridge
Semantic Web Meetup (using PivotViewer page with QR Codes to drive home
effect).
Kingsley
Milton Ponson
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PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for
sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide by creating ICT
tools for NGOs worldwide and: providing online access to web sites and
repositories of data and information for sustainable development
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