- From: Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK) <ian.dickinson@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:23:45 +0000
- To: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi Yves, > Actually, I often use this one along with other > "things-that-we-can-do-now" music-related use-cases, as I > find people tends to like it: anyone would have struggled > with its iTunes (or > whatever) library at least once. I often find that use cases > work better when it relates to things the public experienced > in the past. Agreed. I think that finding music I might like *is* a good use case, and one that people can relate to. What I don't see is how geographical ___location helps. Where I live there are a bunch of local musicians living, and doubtless some famous-ish ones were born nearby, but I don't like or dislike their music because of that. I also like Arthur C. Clarke's fiction, which has nothing to do with the fact that Minehead, where he was born, is less than 100 miles from my current ___location. So yes to music selection as a use case, yes to helping find stuff I might like through semantic annotations/LOD, but I'm not yet convinced by the geo ___location angle. > Big sci-fi use-cases tend to work a bit less. For sure. > I had the feeling the journalist *was* actually impressed by > this use-case, btw? Well, I heard, after Tim explained the music<->geohash mashup idea: "Ha ha ha. Slightly recherch� things to want to do!" re�cher�ch� 1. sought out with care. 2. very rare, exotic, or choice; arcane; obscure. 3. of studied refinement or elegance; precious; affected; pretentious. [1] I would shade that as a mildly negative response, but ymmv. But the overall tone of the interview was generally positive, that's true. Regards, Ian [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recherche ____________________________________________________________ Ian Dickinson http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Ian_Dickinson HP Laboratories Bristol mailto:ian.dickinson@hp.com Hewlett-Packard Limited Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN
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