[Dahut-pm] Semantic Web hacking questionnaire
Kjetil Kjernsmo
kjetil at kjernsmo.net
Mon Jan 8 08:13:43 PST 2007
DAAAAAAAAAAHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!
So, I've gotten myself into the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach
interest group (SWEO). Well, I'm not furniture yet, but I guess I might
be headed that direction... :-) Now, many dahuts have an interest in
semweb, and many are great hackers. Therefore, I have something I'd
like to show you and hear what you think.
It is not all that easy to "sell" the semweb, many think that it is too
complex and that it is an academic exercise without real-world
applications. There are some examples to the contrary, but not much yet
that would influence many people. I think that to attract anyone to
semweb ideas, only running code, code that does something useful, will
make a significant impact.
Quite a few semweb hackers write code, but the initiatives have been
rather fragmented, and has not got to the point where a lot of people
would see the usefulness, but if we could gather people around a few
projects, and bring them to do something useful, I think that could be
a way forward.
Now, I've taken the initiative to find out how we could get semweb
hackers to rally around creating something useful. This is a pretty
delicate matter, as I know people don't like to be told what to do,
they do it because they do feel something is interesting, and we all
have different ideas about what is interesting. I have composed a small
questionnaire, and hope the group of hackers allready interested in
semweb will find enough interest in the proposed projects to get
something running.
My first draft is at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sweo-ig/2006Dec/0169.html
There are two goals, one is to get proposals on interesting things, the
other is to ask questions that hackers would ask when they decide what
kind projects they would join.
At some point I will probably ask dahuts to answer the questions, but
for now, I'd like to hear what would be your reaction to seeing the
questions? Would you answer it (it addresses first and foremost people
allready interested in semweb)? Do you feel that I'm just asking people
to work for free? If you were to join somebody else's project, are
there other questions you would like to have answered? Other things you
would like to be asked?
May you never tumble down a mountain side,
Kjetil
--
Semantic Web Specialist at Opera Software when getting paid :-)
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