[OGDev] Getting OpenGuide info in RDF

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:39:34PM -0800, justin+openguides at dicatek.com wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > I've never done RDF import. I wrote some tools which automated the
> > process of import, but they just used standard HTTP post. My interest in
> > OpenGuides is entirely unrelated to its RDF output, largely because I
> > think that RDF is an unusable technology at this point.
> 
> Hopefully not getting too off topic here, but I'm curious why RDF is
> unusable for OpenGuides / in general? (From reading some web pages, one
> sort of gets the impression that RDF is the second coming. :)

http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/85/ sums up my position nicely, as
far as I remember. I wrote it close to two years ago but most of my
opinions haven't changed, though I would add the severe lack of a
"Getting Things Done" attitude is probably what has harmed the semantic
web the most. OpenGuides is a counter to that, and there are exceptions
to the rule (Dan Brickley, and the FOAF crowd in general, chief among
them), but for the most part, the semantic web is more tied up in
semantic wankery than actually achieving anything with the tools that
they've created.

I can expand more, but this is probably not the best place for it, and I
don't participate in semweb community precisely *because* of all the
reasons that make me complain, so anyone who wants to can follow up off
the list with me :)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer