Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-22 Thread adasal
Hi I haven't had time to follow link I expect there is an issue of how to think about a semantic web. I can see Google is about ruthlessly exploiting the atomisation of the Bazaar. Of course from within the walls of their own Cathedral. Recall is in inverse proportion to accuracy. I think web behav

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread AzamatAbdoullaev
-- Original Message - From: Henry Story To: AzamatAbdoullaev Azamat Cc: semantic-...@w3.org ; public-lod@w3.org ; Harry Halpin ; adasal Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:19 PM Subject: Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful On 18 Jun 2011, at 17:09, AzamatAbdoullaev

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Henry Story
Abdoullaev > Cc: semantic-...@w3.org ; public-lod@w3.org ; Harry Halpin ; adasal > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:58 AM > Subject: Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful > > > On 18 Jun 2011, at 08:13, AzamatAbdoullaev wrote: > >> HS: "I gave a tal

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread AzamatAbdoullaev
Henry Story To: AzamatAbdoullaev Cc: semantic-...@w3.org ; public-lod@w3.org ; Harry Halpin ; adasal Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful On 18 Jun 2011, at 08:13, AzamatAbdoullaev wrote: HS: "I gave a talk on the

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Henry Story
On 18 Jun 2011, at 15:54, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 6/18/11 1:24 PM, Henry Story wrote: >> On 18 Jun 2011, at 13:20, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> >>> On 6/18/11 12:16 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/18/11 8:58 AM, Henry Story wrote: > The recent discussions on this list were very much ab

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/18/11 1:24 PM, Henry Story wrote: On 18 Jun 2011, at 13:20, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/18/11 12:16 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/18/11 8:58 AM, Henry Story wrote: The recent discussions on this list were very much about how to avoid making distinctions unless you have to (Just-In-Tim

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Henry Story
On 18 Jun 2011, at 13:20, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 6/18/11 12:16 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> On 6/18/11 8:58 AM, Henry Story wrote: >>> >>> The recent discussions on this list were very much about how to avoid >>> making distinctions unless you have to (Just-In-Time Distinctions?) So why

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/18/11 12:16 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/18/11 8:58 AM, Henry Story wrote: The recent discussions on this list were very much about how to avoid making distinctions unless you have to (Just-In-Time Distinctions?) So why are the above distinctions needed? Particularly with regard to t

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/18/11 8:58 AM, Henry Story wrote: The recent discussions on this list were very much about how to avoid making distinctions unless you have to (Just-In-Time Distinctions?) So why are the above distinctions needed? Particularly with regard to this conversation. A root of these convers

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Semantic Web <mailto:semantic-...@w3.org> *Sent:* Friday, June 17, 2011 8:48 PM *Subject:* Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful On 17 Jun 2011, at 19:27, adasal wrote: That said the hacker is a various beast, Indeed, hackers are not angels. But the p

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-18 Thread Henry Story
enry Story > To: adasal > Cc: Lin Clark ; Bjoern Hoehrmann ; Linked Data community ; Semantic Web > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 8:48 PM > Subject: Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful > > > On 17 Jun 2011, at 19:27, adasal wrote: > >> That said the hacker

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread AzamatAbdoullaev
mmunity ; Semantic Web Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful On 17 Jun 2011, at 19:27, adasal wrote: That said the hacker is a various beast, Indeed, hackers are not angels. But the people on this list should get back to hacking

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Nathan
you should post to the lists more harry :) Harry Halpin wrote: I've been watching the community response to schema.org for the last bit of time. Overall, I think we should clarify why people are upset. First, there should be no reason to be upset that the major search engines went off and create

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Renato Iannella wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2011, at 07:27, Patrick Logan wrote: > > My primary other concerns have to do with (1) patent encumbrance and (2) > the schema.org "use-wrap" license > > > > The HTML 5 WG follows W3C RF Patent Policy - you can see a list of >

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Leif Warner
You've lost me there - their own example they give on schema.org for RDFa is less verbose than the microdata, and could be made even less so. http://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html What costs are you talking about being incurred? Microdata just looks like RDFa with a couple renames, explicit item s

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Henry Story
On 17 Jun 2011, at 19:27, adasal wrote: > That said the hacker is a various beast, Indeed, hackers are not angels. But the people on this list should get back to hacking or work together with open source projects to get initial minimal working pieces embedded there. WebID is one; foaf is anoth

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread adasal
Hi Henry, Hope you are good. Yes there is the hacker community and that is the twist in the tail of the story of the internet. It may well be that certain projects will gather sufficient momentum to address the balance (that I explain I see needs addressing, akin to pirate radio + commercial broad

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/17/11 4:51 PM, Henry Story wrote: In short we need to all work together in the semweb as a team, using the tools we have built to do that. It's really not difficult to do. :-) [1] video http://bblfish.net/blog/2011/05/25/ Yep! +1000. Working as a team has proven to be a little harder

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/17/11 4:30 PM, Henry Story wrote: In that space we have foaf you may say. But nobody really bothered making it potent. For example the viral part is missing: we only just wrote up a paper on how to make friending easy (viral) http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/05/09/ So what the linked data com

Re: Schema.org considered helpful or harmful?

2011-06-17 Thread adasal
type hierarchy" strikes me as being created with no sense, no > logic, no system, no method, no any hint of ontology. If its "step up", then > i don't know what might be step down :) > Azamat Abdoullaev > http://www.eis.com.cy > > - Original Message - From: &qu

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread adasal
So the internet is a country. In this country some may conform while others may break the rules - of this country and/or of the country from you or they have come. it's fun to break rules - we can listen to decent music for a start. We can also put it about that we are the bad asses. How cool is th

Re: Schema.org considered helpful or harmful?

2011-06-17 Thread AzamatAbdoullaev
no sense, no logic, no system, no method, no any hint of ontology. If its "step up", then i don't know what might be step down :) Azamat Abdoullaev http://www.eis.com.cy - Original Message ----- From: "Harry Halpin" To: "Linked Data community" ; "

Re: Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Henry Story
On 17 Jun 2011, at 17:36, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: > Wave! I'm very much in the hacker community too. Get cool stuff done on hack > days and so forth. > > My current hack: > screen scraping the glastonbury festival site to get their entire programme; > http://programme.ecs.soton.ac.uk/glas

Hackers - Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Henry Story
On 17 Jun 2011, at 14:51, adasal wrote: > Don't expect any support from that quarter. (Well apart from a few unhelpful > scraps.) > > The question is how can the SemWeb academic community address these issues? There is the hacker community too, btw. The academic community is looking to be way

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/17/11 3:53 PM, Phil Archer wrote: Dunno if the analogy is a perfect fit, but it feels to me as if schema.org is a game changer that, in one way or another, we're going to get used to having around. It's a game changer because its given the entire Linked Data and Semantic Web aspiratio

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Phil Archer
An interesting and thought provoking post, Harry, and close to my own in many respects. Strangely it reminded me of one of my previous lives. In 1983 I was working for a radio station in Stoke on Trent (north English midlands). It was a traditional local radio station with a duty to serve a di

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread adasal
Lin, A couple of things. Your quote says 'the Semantic Web academic community...' but you just mention 'the SemWeb community...', so somehow I assume that for you the one is synonymous with the other. When you say 'are pushing potentially interested people away from joining the effort' which effort

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Renato Iannella
On 17 Jun 2011, at 21:13, Lin Clark wrote: > >That's interesting. Was there anybody who pointed this out at the time? > > Yes. Most notably, Ian Hickson pointed it out in direct relation to RDFa and > Microdata > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatwg@lists.whatwg.org/msg11067.html > http://wiki.wh

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Lin Clark
> > >> >> That's interesting. Was there anybody who pointed this out at the time? > > Or maybe this was sarcastic... if so, sorry for the misunderstanding :)

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/17/11 12:13 PM, Lin Clark wrote: I don't want to start a fight on this list, there are already enough of those going on and I have a feeling those are pushing potentially interested people away from joining the effort. I just wanted to note that yes, it has been pointed out. We cannot

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Lin Clark
> > >The fact of the matter is that the Semantic Web academic community has > >had their priorities skewed to the wrong direction. Had folks been > >spending time doing usability testing and focussing on user-feedback > >on common problems (such as the rather obvious "vocabulary hosting" > >problem

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread adasal
I noticed Steve's comment in this very civilised discussion without seeing his details, and was going to confirm how much this reminds me of the way CTO's and architect groups think. Steve mentions an 'internal project', but I think there is a degree of confusion about the nature of the domain we a

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Harris
I'm sure that some of these points were relevant at some level, but I suspect that's not the key reason. At some point, the team working on the internal project would have to go to the divisional CTO and/or CIO in charge of operations and ask permission to deploy the code on the production syst

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Renato Iannella
On 17 Jun 2011, at 07:27, Patrick Logan wrote: > My primary other concerns have to do with (1) patent encumbrance and (2) the > schema.org "use-wrap" license The HTML 5 WG follows W3C RF Patent Policy - you can see a list of Disclosures here [1] (all from Apple). The schema.org terms [2] doe

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Renato Iannella
A massive +1 to this Harry. Even better would be if your personal views could fit under your W3C hat ;-) We all know you can design the best technology, but if you don't address the market requirements, then that is all you will have (aka the Beta/VHS wars [1]). Lets hope there is a sea-change

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Hausenblas, Michael
On 16 Jun 2011, at 22:11, "Harry Halpin" wrote: > I've been watching the community response to schema.org for the last > bit of time. Overall, I think we should clarify why people are upset. > First, there should be no reason to be upset that the major search > engines went off and created their

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Harry Halpin wrote: >I've been watching the community response to schema.org for the last >bit of time. Overall, I think we should clarify why people are upset. >First, there should be no reason to be upset that the major search >engines went off and created their own vocabularies. According to t

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Mischa Tuffield
Hello, *excuse a little top-posting before comments coming inline ... Great email Harry, I agree with your sentiment that schema.org shouldn't be perceived as a massive thread to the SW community. If anything I find and welcome the move, surely it will widen the audience of web-developers int

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Juan Sequeda
nicely put! Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: > I've been watching the community response to schema.org for the last > bit of time. Overall, I think we should clarify why people are upset. > First, there should be no reason to

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick Logan
I believe as of SemTech that Google has retracted its position of not mixing MD and RDFa. That was my primary technical concern. My primary other concerns have to do with (1) patent encumbrance and (2) the schema.org "use-wrap" license (i.e. if you "use" the site (whatever that means) the license

Re: Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/16/11 10:09 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: Schema.org is not a threat. It's an opportunity to step up. Good luck everyone! Yep! +1000 . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi

Schema.org considered helpful

2011-06-16 Thread Harry Halpin
I've been watching the community response to schema.org for the last bit of time. Overall, I think we should clarify why people are upset. First, there should be no reason to be upset that the major search engines went off and created their own vocabularies. According to the argument of decentraliz