Re: Banging the identity drum again, this time REST-style

On 2010.11.23 08:54 Lars Heuer wrote:

>> I'm sure you've had this feeling with the work you've mentioned
>> doing on dbpedia dumps, but why should we have to do this.  Why are
>> we, a very small community, trying to absorb the work of helping
>> everyone else make sense of this information landfill we see and
>> experience every day through the window of Google's search box?  Why
>> can't we distribute this effort--just like the Web?

>I just wondered why people should extend the links if the links work
>for important technologies like RDF/LOD. I simply doubt that they
>change it just because a few people on this planet like to see it more
>Topic Mappish.

I always figured that if a major Web search engine service published a Link or Topic Maps fragment specification, and encouraged all Web publishers to annotate their Web pages and documents accordingly, with the incentive that such resources would then be richly linked and and easily found in their search context, I am sure worldwide annotation of Web resources would begin. Heck, the SEO industry would have a field day and could become the biggest promoter o Topic Maps. The current Topic Maps community could then relish in a 10,000 fold increase in the Topic Maps applications and services industry.

Perhaps the current community could work on defining such a specification. Seems like the necessary first step to mass adoption. 

A PSI server at, say, topicmaps.org could provide an initial list of the most common concepts, which could be expanded by the expanding community over time. A very prominent PSI server from the start should help reduce redundant adhoc PSI creation, and also to register PSI equivalents.

Cheers,
Carlo