Hi Mia - I personally find it interesting because it allows you to add / remove different views into the material in a fairly novel way and it got me thinking about how this kind of view might work with our content. I think like many I - for example - find the current "collections record view" on many museum websites a pretty depressing way of representing what we have.
IP/LinkedData/accuracy/size of company producing it/time to market/etc aside, I think it provides food for thought.
Re. the RDFa/SW stuff - actually (separate thread altogether) I think it could be fairly strongly argued that the Google "structured data/rich snippets" initiative (http://bit.ly/1adzU5 for those that haven't seen it) has at one fell swoop done more for SW-like approaches than anything else since Tim BL first mentioned it back in AD 1345. Be interesting to see which museums try this, and how it works.
ta
Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ridge Mia
Sent: 04 June 2009 16:02
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Subject: Re: Google Squared - collections search?
Mike Ellis wrote:
> I think (I could be wrong) that Dan was making the point that
> *conceptually* this was quite an interesting way of
> considering data, and ways of cutting/slicing data...
I *think* we got that... but presumably it's only interesting because
it's Google and would therefore get a wider user base if it was
released? Unless I'm missing something (entirely probable).
In general it's been fun watching the search engines suddenly try to
out-do each other to playing to the latest trends - lightly structured
data formats (RDFa, RSS), pseudo-semantic searches and silly names
(Microsoft's Bing, Wolfram|Alpha).
cheers, Mia
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