Max Wilson's SWUI 2007 Position Statement

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in a one liner, my SWUI interest could be defined as: "what can the semantic web do for my mum".

What can i get from the SW

not how it works

As far as I'm concerned, the semantic web is the results of the web migrating further towards the MVC model. and my primary interest is how can we better interface design with the kind of questions we can now ask the semantic web. so what can i ask the semantic web? and with a view of all the data web being semantically connected - its: anything you want to ask.

what do you want to ask? information feedback in UI design is suddenly almost unlimited. your looking at monkeys - what do you want to know about them? how many types of monkeys, how many of each type of monkey, the range of colours of monkeys, the average height of monkeys, of each type, or colour, or country, by size of average ear - woah woah, i was just on 'monkey'.

you mean i can ask anything of it?

the effect on the basics of UI design

now this also has a reverse effect, which links in with my paper last year on numeric value indicators. if you are browsing the internet movie database now, and you look at action films, people tend to expect to see how many action films there are like this: Action [2,887] or equivalent. then because it's in a fixed dataset about movies, you look at directors, but you still see how many movies. but this is a person and now the semantic web connects all the information about that person. so is it just how many movies you want to see?

it begins to challenge basic ui design which has, all this time, had the single assumption of a fixed dataset.

Finally...

what does my mum want to know? how can she get online and express that in way thats as simple and as easy as google, but has unlimited boundarys provided by the semantic web for her to explore.

antonym: i dont particularly care about rdf, structure, definitions.

i also commented on Chris Bizer's position Talk:Chris_Bizer's_SWUI_2007_Position_Statement