Inevitable that usage will grow substantially. Who and how is far from clear. I will not rehearse scenarios. An interesting metric would be the ratio kb of data that could be reasoned over by a reasoner that takes heterogeneous data input (to tackle the various format issue) against HTML/XML. Clearly the ratio is in favour of HTML at the moment.
Br Adam Sent from my iPhone On 19 Sep 2011, at 15:18, Patrick Durusau <patr...@durusau.net> wrote: > Adam, > > On 9/19/2011 9:29 AM, Adam Saltiel wrote: >> I didn't follow the links yet. But I'm sure Kingsley means popular such as >> to gain traction and wide spread use. This does seem inevitable. It is just >> that it has been a bit slow. > Why "inevitable?" > > People make their webpages available b/c the benefit of being "heard" by a > wider audience is worth the cost of admission. > > The cost/benefit picture for creating RDF for the consumption of others isn't > as clear. > > The HTML involved very minimal effort in order to participate. > > Perhaps a useful question to consider would be comparing the effort in the > average webpage versus Linked Data or RDF or RDFa? > > Such a study may already exist and if so, I would appreciate a reference to > it. > > Hope you are at the start of a great week! > > Patrick > > >> Am I right that algorithmic based social networks intervened in what might >> have been a more straight forward uptake? >> I think we need to be clearer about the differences between machine curation >> on the basis of algorithms run on huge data sets and machine curation on the >> basis of type categories. >> We need to know the both the means and intentional ends of both approaches. >> Br >> >> Adam >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 19 Sep 2011, at 02:49, Patrick Durusau<patr...@durusau.net> wrote: >> >>> Kingsley, >>> >>> An idea being "popular" doesn't mean that it is feasible or even desirable. >>> >>> Fascism for example. Quite popular a number of times in history. >>> >>> Hope you are at the start of a great week! >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> >>> >>> On 09/18/2011 03:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >>>> On 9/18/11 8:35 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>>>> http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html >>>>> >>>>> Enjoy! :) >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> foaf-protocols mailing list >>>>> foaf-protoc...@lists.foaf-project.org >>>>> http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols >>>>> >>>> Amen! >>>> >>>> cc. some other mailing lists where members continue to be challenged about >>>> uptake of at least one of the following: >>>> >>>> 1. Linked Data >>>> 2. Semantic Web Project deliverables and their adoption beyond niches. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Patrick Durusau >>> patr...@durusau.net >>> Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 >>> Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) >>> Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 >>> Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) >>> >>> Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net >>> Homepage: http://www.durusau.net >>> Twitter: patrickDurusau >>> >>> > > -- > Patrick Durusau > patr...@durusau.net > Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 > Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) > Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 > Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) > > Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net > Homepage: http://www.durusau.net > Twitter: patrickDurusau >
