I'm also female and fairly new to the list...
I joined the list because I've recently started work on the Linking Web
data for Education (LinkedUp project) [http://linkedup-project.eu] which
aims to encourage use of linked and open data in particular by
educational institutions and organizations.
My background isn't technical but I do have a history of working with
technical people. I suppose my interest lies in moving linked data use
beyond the usual suspects to the wider community. I've really enjoyed
the list discussions I've read so far, but it does sometimes feel a
little like an echo chamber, and there are a lot of assumptions about
'what people out there know/or should know'. For example I really like
Dominic's idea of compiling a list of end user applications & use cases.
These type of lists can be hugely useful for those new to the area of
linked data, and it's actually something we are working on in my project
as part of the LinkedUp Challenge [http://linkedup-challenge.org] - a
competition looking for interesting and innovative tools and
applications that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational
purposes. Yet Kingsely commented "We don't need a central repository of
anything, assuming we actually know what Linked Data is really about. "
Sometimes it helps to take a step back.
Anyway I'm keen to participate in more conversations in the future and
you sound like a friendly list, so I'm hoping there will be no
judgements on my level of technical knowledge ;-)
After all, the aim is surely to get more people interested in creating
and using linked data, and that sometimes requires opening up to new
people who don't fully know the etymology or meaning of terms.
Marieke
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On 24/06/2013 10:38, Kate Byrne wrote:
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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