2012/6/20 Nick Kew <n...@apache.org>: > > On 20 Jun 2012, at 10:31, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <r...@apache.org> wrote: >>> What about a semantic web track at ApacheCon? >> >> I like the idea, and would like it even better if it was called >> "linked data", "web of data" of anything that does not include the >> word "semantic". > > Except ... semantic web is the widely-known name. Omitting the name > would be perverse, and could tend to hide it from anyone without > prior knowledge.
"semantic web" scares regular developers away as complicated rule-based reasoning systems and hide the goodness of simple stuff such as JSON-LD, RDFa Lite, reusable data vocabularies such as schema.org and friends. +1 for "Web of Data". -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel
