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Subject: For those who want to look ahead
Hi Everyone, I've been debating with myself when it would be best to bring up the topic of Open LInked Data, since, down the road, this is probably going to be the way that both search and research will be done. Note: it doesn't relate to any of our immediate work, but is something I had planned to introduce after the ValueListURN work is done. However, as with Cloud Computing which burst onto the IT scene with big hype last year and will continue this year, Linked Data will probably start getting hyped before we get to the point that we want to consider its place in our work. So, rather than wait, I decided to invite you all to read ahead, so to speak, so that this isn't new stuff for us when we get there. So here are a couple of starting points: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data W3C: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData It is still early days for this, but the combination of Cloud Computing and Linked Data is inevitable, and I suspect the same collection of agile bright minds that brought us AJAX while we waiting for something else to provide dynamic, and asynchronous, updating of content of web pages based on user input, these two developments will almost certainly be connected by something like AJAX for dynamically updating data within content, and this is something that will affect the public during emergencies much the same way that ad hoc AJAX powered web pages and RSS feeds and Twitter are used now. Unfortunately, even though we can get information faster through these kinds of social networking applications, there is no non-repudiation or security, and the challenge will be to use similar systems in official systems, especially with interoperability standards that provide reliable and secure service allowing trust in the data thus linked. Note that Linked Data uses RDF, which we have already introduced into our discussions. If this is old stuff for anyone, good for you! Please clue us in with any topics of interest that stick their heads up over the horizon. Cheers, Rex -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670
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