Incremental adoption is the key to Semantic Web adoption
Danny Ayers has some wisdom about not reinventing the wheel for the semantic web.
Apparantly there seems to be a disconnect between the MySQL community (or CEO at least) and the Semantic Web community.
It’s hard to disagree with Danny most of the time, but I think the RDF web communty can take one thing away from this whole debate. (and I think they do)
The Semantic Web community needs to make this stuff more easily accessible to the average mortal web developer.
There was a time when there was bit of talk about using OPML and RSS as a springboard to getting kids to adopt some more sophisticated RDF stuff.
We do want to make this stuff relatively easy to experiment with, and then developers will see it’s power and want to delve deeper.
When someone makes something like a GrazrScript layer on top of a SPARQL query (hint hint), I think we’ll see some more mainstream adoption.
But ultimately, Danny and others are right. The foundations are in place.
But, as Tim Berners Lee pointed out recently, we need to have incremental adoption, and that’s all I’m driving at.
Heh, I’m not used to my name and “wisdom” appearing in the same sentence, but thanks!
“There was a time when there was bit of talk about using OPML and RSS as a springboard to getting kids to adopt some more sophisticated RDF stuff.”
- yeah, I really should shunt that up the to-do list. I’d not seen GrazrScript before, on first glance I haven’t a clue how one might tie this into SPARQL, but it’s an interesting idea, time permitting I’ll try and take the hint.