[open-development] group brainstorm / web conference on web content tagging / taxonomy stuff?

Tue Aug 11 20:16:43 UTC 2009

I'd definitely be interested in participating in this!

Sören Auer, of DBpedia, is on our Advisory Board (and in carbon copy).
Sören: do you know of any semantic web initiatives related to
international development?

In general we're very keen to continue to add resources related to
international development to CKAN:

  http://ckan.net/tag/read/development

This currently supports user-generated tags, but we're also thinking
of adding domain specific metadata, where this might be useful (e.g.
bounding boxes for geodata..).

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Joe Pringle<jpringle at forumone.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone -
>
> I wanted to propose a call or web conference about an aspect of this that
> I've been trying to wrap my head around.  I've been trying to think of
> ways that organizations that publish development knowledge to the web can
> better tag that content and make it available in machine accessible ways.
> In other words, in ways that other web sites and apps can easily
> aggregate, mash up, organize, etc via extended RSS feeds, API's, etc.  I'm
> mostly focused on reports, blog post, tools, resources, conversations,
> events, etc. I was wondering whether there would be critical mass for a
> phone discussion or web conf about this including looking at certain
> things that are currently happening that seem relevant:
>
> DBpedia
>
> http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets?v=vab#h18-7
>
> and
>
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenDat
> a
>
> and
>
> http://www.commontag.org/QuickStartGuide
>
> For my limited perspective, I'm just trying to understand the best way we
> could move toward some sort of shared vocabulary / ontology around
> development topics from which we could derive standards and easily
> implementable approaches for XML / RSS feeds, API's, etc.  Hopefully this
> makes sense, and if any of you have figured this out or there is already a
> clear path forward on this I'd love to be educated.
>
> Just throwing it out there.  If there's enough interest I'm happy to
> organize.  Thanks!
>
> Joe Pringle
>
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