Hello all
Being in the process to somehow inventory resources for the "Semantic Web
communities" at large, represent them in a Topic Map, and open a
collaborative space to manage and update this Topic Map [1], I found out
there is a great deal of redundancy in that universe. Mailing lists with
deep debates, pointers in the messages to pertinent resources, well -
funded projects, interesting software, effective implementations and
experiences etc. In many places, a great deal of time and energy is
invested to collect and update links, and all these efforts IMO could be
more effective at a lower time/energy cost if somehow coordinated. Well,
the problem is : many of these projects and tools exactly aim to this very
same role of coordination, and when there are many diverse attempts to
coordination, well ... there is no coordination at all ... and I'm aware I
am in the same dispersion and redundancy logic in proposing one more
similar tool. I don't really believe in the mythical Web self-organization
capacity. In fact I see people developing smart projects and tools, trying
to fund them somehow because they have keep themselves and their projects
alive, so they need to ensure visibility and get involved in some
promotional, not to say commercial activity. When two very similar projects
meet, what happens ?
Some kind of the following dialog : "Hey, look at my project, is not it on
the same page than yours ?" "Oh, indeed, that's great!"
"What about a synergy and collaboration ?" "Why not, let's make it!" "Well
... how shall we do ...?" "Hmm ...who's gonna pay for it ...?"
The rest of the dialog remains generally blank, and the two projects keep
on their parallel ways.
I'd like to gather people around a reflection around this problem. One more
forum ? Maybe ... if I have feedback to this message, I'll certainly make
it ... one more tool, I know, but ... any other suggestion ?
Feel free to forward this message to other communities you are involved in
...
Yours
Bernard
[1] "Building Knowledge Universe"
http://www.universimmedia.com/topicmaps/index.htm
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Bernard Vatant
bernard@universimmedia.com
www.universimmedia.com
"Building Knowledge"
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