I’m at the #jiscexpo programme meeting today and tomorrow…<\/p>\n
Ben O’Steen is the first formal talk of the day … talking about ‘community’…<\/p>\n
Ben notes that SPARQL has a very bad reputation – people don’t like it and don’t want to use it. Taking a step back – SQL is standard way of interacting with databases, but in general you don’t write SQL queries against someone else’s database – and v unusual to do this without permission and documentation etc. (I guess unless you are really hacking into it!)<\/p>\n
In general SQL databases are hidden from ‘remote’ users via APIs or other interfaces which present you with views on the data, not the raw data structure.<\/p>\n
So what does this tell us about what we need to do with Linked Data?<\/p>\n
Interaction Feedback Loop – fundamental – if you can get this you get engagement. Example ‘mouse presses button, mouse gets cheese’ – this encourages a behaviour in the mouse. Ben uses World of WarCraft as example of interaction feedback loop that works incredibly well – people write their own programmes and interfaces for WoW.<\/p>\n
Ben notes this is not about Gamification… this is about getting pay-off for interaction.<\/p>\n
Ben sets some homework – go read http:\/\/jboriss.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/06\/user-testing-in-the-wild-joes-first-computer-encounter\/<\/a> – blog post about user testing on web browsers and the experience of ‘Joe’ a 60 year-old who has never used a computer before – and what happened when he tried to find a local restaurant to eat in via three major web browsers “There is little modern applications do to guide people who have never used a computer”.<\/p>\n Sliding scale of interaction<\/strong><\/p>\n Ben now going back to SPARQL – it is common when interacting with an unknown SPARQL endpoint to become frustrated….<\/p>\n What do you need to understand to craft successful SPARQL? Developers are clamouring for APIs<\/p>\n Taking an ‘opinionated view’ on information helps adopters – offering a constrained view of the model. Could offer csv\/json\/html views on the data behind a SPARQL endpoint. Ben notes ‘access to the full model is a wonderful thing’ – but don’t forget (paraphrase) ‘most average developers want constrained view’ Ben notes – schema.org<\/a> contains very ‘opinionated’ views of the things it can describe – but this gives simplicity and lowers barriers to adoption.<\/p>\n Schema.org<\/a> going to increase the amount of structured data on the web – <\/p>\n In summary:<\/p>\n I’m at the #jiscexpo programme meeting today and tomorrow… Ben O’Steen is the first formal talk of the day … talking about ‘community’… Ben notes that SPARQL has a very bad reputation – people don’t like it and don’t want to use it. Taking a step back – SQL is standard way of interacting with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jiscexpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/strong>Ben now talking about schema.org<\/a> – new intiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo! Ben notes – schema.org<\/a> delivers ‘cheese’ immediately – clear that the reason you want to do this is to improve search engine results.<\/p>\n\n