Saturday and Sunday at SemanticCamp
Sunday, 17. February 2008, 16:47:02
I'm here at SemanticCamp in London. We're getting close to the end now, but it's been a great couple of days. The guys from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary are here in force, as are the BBC guys working on RDF export of BBC Programmes. Yves and the guys from C4DM showed a lot of cool stuff yesterday about music info on the Semantic Web, followed by a talk from the BBC guys. Michael Smethurst and co. have already got the TOTP/Later data online as linked data; arrival of the Programmes data will be a huge milestone.
One of the highlights of the day for me was hearing what Chris Jackson, Lee Denison and Ashok Argent-Katwala are doing with URI Play. They're working really hard at making sense of the architectural options, but their plans for providing easy access to TV shows across different service providers and potentially a hub for linking these together look awesome.
Later in the day Georgi gave a great talk about DBpedia, with a particularly nice slide about the SEMANTIC Web community and the Semantic WEB community. This was followed by an interesting but sobering talk from iand about Open Data Licensing.
I was suprised in the morning intro session by the number of people present who chose Microformats (big M
as one of their three tags. On the one hand I'm please that the title "SemanticCamp" didn't put this community off; i.e. the event obviously wasn't perceived as a purely Semantic Web show. On the other hand, mid-afternoon yesterday it became obvious that all the Semantic Web people were in one room and all the Microformats community were next door. We haven't had an open flame war yet about upper vs lowercase Semantic Web (thankfully), but there does seem to be a clear divide in where people's loyalties or priorities lie, and I'm a bit sad that the uF community here still seems pretty infatuated with Microformats. Sigh.
It's been good to see some new faces, and catch with some that are more familiar. Aside from the excellent meal at Memories of India on Gloucester Road, the highlight for me was the lengthy, late-night, beer-fuelled discussion with danbri about information resources, non-information resources, and 303 redirects. More on that later I guess.
One of the highlights of the day for me was hearing what Chris Jackson, Lee Denison and Ashok Argent-Katwala are doing with URI Play. They're working really hard at making sense of the architectural options, but their plans for providing easy access to TV shows across different service providers and potentially a hub for linking these together look awesome.
Later in the day Georgi gave a great talk about DBpedia, with a particularly nice slide about the SEMANTIC Web community and the Semantic WEB community. This was followed by an interesting but sobering talk from iand about Open Data Licensing.
I was suprised in the morning intro session by the number of people present who chose Microformats (big M
as one of their three tags. On the one hand I'm please that the title "SemanticCamp" didn't put this community off; i.e. the event obviously wasn't perceived as a purely Semantic Web show. On the other hand, mid-afternoon yesterday it became obvious that all the Semantic Web people were in one room and all the Microformats community were next door. We haven't had an open flame war yet about upper vs lowercase Semantic Web (thankfully), but there does seem to be a clear divide in where people's loyalties or priorities lie, and I'm a bit sad that the uF community here still seems pretty infatuated with Microformats. Sigh.It's been good to see some new faces, and catch with some that are more familiar. Aside from the excellent meal at Memories of India on Gloucester Road, the highlight for me was the lengthy, late-night, beer-fuelled discussion with danbri about information resources, non-information resources, and 303 redirects. More on that later I guess.
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