Comments on: Jim Hendler at the INSEMTIVE 2008 Workshop http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/jim-hendler-at-the-insemtive-2008-workshop.php From Semantic Web to Web of Data Mon, 23 May 2011 13:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Tetherless World Weblog » Blog Archive » Why Bother… http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/jim-hendler-at-the-insemtive-2008-workshop.php/comment-page-1#comment-6542 The Tetherless World Weblog » Blog Archive » Why Bother… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:52:34 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/?p=1232#comment-6542 [...] From Talis: “Jim Hendler at the INSEMTIVE 2008 Workshop” [...] [...] From Talis: “Jim Hendler at the INSEMTIVE 2008 Workshop” [...]

]]> By: Jie Bao http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/jim-hendler-at-the-insemtive-2008-workshop.php/comment-page-1#comment-6539 Jie Bao Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:37:33 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/?p=1232#comment-6539 "that people will (and do) create metadata when there are obvious and immediate benefits in them doing so. No-one really consciously sits down to share or create metadata: they sit down to do a specific task and metadata drops out as a side-effect." I can not agree any more. I have tried to tag all my blogs once upon a time, after a few weeks, I found myself bored because there is no clear, immediate benefits for doing so. I would only tag things that I have to, like to tell my friends a list of posts of the same topic. The only tagging system that is consistently successful on me is the gmail labeling: I organize mails related to the same task on daily bases, because it is very useful, and immediately useful. I have seen too many people have their desktop full of files and too lazy to organize them. I believe for semantic web to be successful, making ontology should be at least as easy as and as useful as organizing files. “that people will (and do) create metadata when there are obvious and immediate benefits in them doing so. No-one really consciously sits down to share or create metadata: they sit down to do a specific task and metadata drops out as a side-effect.”

I can not agree any more. I have tried to tag all my blogs once upon a time, after a few weeks, I found myself bored because there is no clear, immediate benefits for doing so. I would only tag things that I have to, like to tell my friends a list of posts of the same topic.

The only tagging system that is consistently successful on me is the gmail labeling: I organize mails related to the same task on daily bases, because it is very useful, and immediately useful.

I have seen too many people have their desktop full of files and too lazy to organize them. I believe for semantic web to be successful, making ontology should be at least as easy as and as useful as organizing files.

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