On 24 June 2013 10:34, Isabelle Augenstein <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Dominic, > > I only joined the list a few months ago, so my observations might be > inaccurate, but > > - Overall, most discussions on the list seem to be rather philosophical > (What is Linked Data? Does Linked Data require RDF?), which are not the > kind of discussions I was hoping for when I joined the list in the first > place > Quite. A lot of the initial enthusiasm about Linked Data was associated with a despair some felt about the "Semantic Web" slogan, which had got itself associated with overly-academic, complex-KR-obsessed and other unworldy concerns. I suspect this sort of churn is a natural part of the lifecycle of standards work; some are starting to feel about public-lod the same way. > - My guess would be that the ratio between subscribers and people posting > on the list is rather low in general in addition to few women being > subscribed to the list (But I bet we can get some statistics for that?) > There are just over 1000 subscribers to the list (no gender figures available for those). You can see from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Jun/author.html who the most vocal participants are. Dan
