Siegfried Handschuh Video, Slides from SOKS: Self-Organising Knowledge Systems, Amsterdam, 29 April 2010
Abstract:
The Social Semantic Desktop, defines a user’s personal information environment as a source and end-point of the Semantic Web: Knowledge workers comprehensively express their information and data with respect to their own conceptualizations. This covers the aspects of social semantics and meta-data creation.
Slide 8 is an argument for HyTime!
I wonder if we are going to have to re-invent it?
One of the problems of the Semantic Web is URI-based addressing.
Can address at the document level, all my citations to articles for example, but not any further.
So every user has to read every document to get the same information.
Can you say inefficient?
Not to mention that users cannot connect information in documents to information in other documents.
Can you say ineffectual?
No doubt useful for document level semantics, maybe, but not appropriate for more granular semantics.
Can you say inappropriate?
Imagine this semantic desktop with real addressing capabilities.
Point to point or perhaps better, subject to subject pointing.
Topic maps anyone?