Hi, I've been trying to get my feet wet in the semantic web world for about 6 months now but have always hit one of a few snags:
- Pedantry: Within minutes people who do understand it are quoting RFC's and W3C's and IOCC's at each other and make me feel like a moron. I then space out and check out twitter or facebook - Boredom: The examples on the web all center on licensing (as a Creative Commons product), uh, well, cool and all, but what does that mean to me? - Confusion: There are few good books on the matter - Repetition: Everyone winds up modeling the stupid license example or the "Dublin core created by" example. Without some alternative examples to show the flexibility of the form how am I going to get a hang of this? With all these virtues, what could possibly be holding back the semantic web's rise? To mitigate this I created my resume (a practical example) in RDFa (that is, XHTML + semantic web markup hints, a practical format). My document both validates at the W3C, distills to RDF (the base language of the semantic web) and makes a really cool chart (http://stevengharms.com/resume.html , at the bottom, unless I broke it last night ;) ). Juan Sequeda, the leader of the Semantic Web Austin group and I were talking about covering this topic in the Semantic Web Austin group. We thought it might be cool if SemWebAustin and RefreshAustin (and any other *Austins) could get together and help advance the dream of Austin as a place where the Web community is sharper than the average town re: semantic technology. Would a group meeting like this work well with Refresh's charter? Would it be of interest? I would call the presentation "Creating web data that advances the Semantic Web: A guide for normal people who know (X)HTML minus academic tangents" . If it's not a good fit, I'll limit the audience to SemWebAustin, but thought hey, why not, more the merrier. Steven --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
