Glenn: > If there isn't, why not? We're the Semantic Web, dammit. If we aren't the > masters of data interoperability, what are we? The main question is: Is the Semantic Web an evolutionary improvement of the Web, the Web understood as an ecosystem comprising protocols, data models, people, and economics - or is it a tiny special interest branch.
As said: I bet a bottle of champagne that the academic Semantic Web community's technical proposals will never gain more than 10 % market share among "real" site-owners, because of - unnecessary complexity (think of the simplicity of publishing an HTML page vs. following LOD publishing principles), - bad design decisions (e.g explicit datatyping of data instances in RDFa), - poor documentation for non-geeks, and - a lack of understanding of the economics of technology diffusion. Never ever. Best Martin On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:18 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: > >From my perspective as the designer of a system that both consumes and > >publishes data, the load/burden issue here is not at all particular to the > >semantic web. Needle obeys robots.txt rules, but that's a small deal > >compared to the difficulty of extracting whole data from sites set up to > >deliver it only in tiny pieces. I'd say about 98% of the time I can describe > >the data I want from a site with a single conceptual query. Indeed, once > >I've got the data into Needle I can almost always actually produce that > >query. But on the source site, I usually can't, and thus we are forced to > >waste everybody's time navigating the machines through superfluous > >presentation rendering designed for people. 10-at-a-time results lists, > >interminable AJAX refreshes, animated DIV reveals, grafting back together > >the splintered bits of tree-traversals, etc. This is all absurdly > >unnecessary. Why is anybody having to "crawl" an open semantic-web dataset? > >Isn't there a "download" link, and/or a SPARQL endpoint? If there isn't, why > >not? We're the Semantic Web, dammit. If we aren't the masters of data > >interoperability, what are we? > > glenn > (www.needlebase.com)
