Re: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4

Hello!

>> 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.
>

I totally agree with you. I was actually more thinking of these
geolocation queries against an aggregation describing my personal
music collection (using the sort of stuff in the motools sourceforge
project), so I kind of know this is music I like already. I typically
use such geo-___location queries for a "plot my music collection on a
map" use-case (as in http://dbtune.org/facet-demo/), which I found
people tend to like as a semweb use-case (much easier to create a
playlist of Cuban music, for example, by directly seeing the part of
my music collection which was recorded by Cuban artists). I think the
fact that you can also categorise your collection between "rural" or
"urban" by using associated statistics is also quite interesting. Not
on a really "find me music i like" use-case, but more on a "give me
more information about the music i like".

Also, I forgot to mention DBpediaMobile. I found this has a really
great "wow" factor for people not knowing anything about the semweb.
Associated with last.fm recommended events... yummy :-)

>> 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]
>

Heh - sounds like a French word :-) But you're right, I didn't notice
it. I still don't really think it is bad, actually. I guess that, with
such a "recherch�" example involving such a simple linkage, most
people are left wondering what else could be possible by interlinking
data in different domains?

Cheers!
y

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2008 11:42:48 UTC