SemanticWebIntro
What kind of introductory materials are available describing the Semantic Web initiative?
In particular, how might one introduce the concept to an audience without a great deal of technical background?
See DanBri's email query on non-technical intros.
Materials that have been mentioned:
- Danny Ayers 500 word summary of RDF
- The Lord Of the Webs, Leslie Walker in the Washington Post.
- The Next Web, David M. Ewalt, Information Week (2002-10-14)
- Tutorial: The Semantic Web on 'XML, RDF and relatives', a short intro by Michael Klein (PDF format)
hardly a doc, but definitely relevant :
dajobe's elevator-pitch to somebody familiar with relational systems
the one line version is "RDF is a relational model where the columns and rows are infinite and the row and column names are URIs."
We could try organising such materials by the level of background technical knowledge assumed. Also by audience: presenting these ideas to librarians versus to programmers, writers, policy makers, adminstrators...
hmm... merge with SemanticWebFaq? remember PPR:OnceAndOnlyOnce.