I should probably have noted that, even though I'm at DERI, I have nothing to do with the development of SIOC (just to be clear).
-Lin On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Lin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's equally chauvinistic for SIOC to pass up the opportunity to >> be a general vocabulary for structural metadata. > > > There is no real opportunity to be had here. > > The vocabularies that have seen adoption are the ones that use a small > number of terms to model a smallish subset of things in thee world, not > grand schemes that attempt to model the entire world. With any technology > that seeks to reshape the *World Wide* Web, large scale adoption should be > a key goal. I don't see how radically increasing the number of terms (and > thus increasing cognitive load for the user) works in favor of achieving > this goal. > > If you want to model book chapters, chapter is modeled in plenty of other > vocabularies. You don't need SIOC for that. > > -Lin > > -- > Lin Clark > DERI, NUI Galway <http://www.deri.ie/> > > lin-clark.com > twitter.com/linclark > -- Lin Clark DERI, NUI Galway <http://www.deri.ie/> lin-clark.com twitter.com/linclark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en.
