I participate in this list by reading and don't feel pressure to write
unless I have something to say. (This message is partly because
non-writers to the list were recently excluded from participating in a
poll, so I'm protecting myself for the future.) The point below about
ratio of posters to subscribers is surely correct, and perhaps the
number of regular posters is too small to allow us to draw conclusions
on gender?
The fact that I'm still participating after the quite testing regime of
blast, counterblast and tiresome repetition we've been through recently
shows how valuable I think this list (usually) is. :-)
Kate
On 06/24/13 10:14, Dan Brickley wrote:
On 24 June 2013 10:34, Isabelle Augenstein
<[email protected] <mailto:[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
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