Making computers human literate WWW@20

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Making computers human literate

Tom Scott

Sunday, March 15, 2009

The challenge is not to make humans computer literate, but computers human literate.

Liverpool Street station crowd blur http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/Sunday, March 15, 2009

The BBC has historically created a series of microsites – each coherent in their own right but not across the breadth of BBC content.

Radio 4 Big Bang http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/Sunday, March 15, 2009

I can’t carry on my journey to find everything Brian Cox...

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...everything Lions...

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...or Jeremy Clarkson.

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Things are changing : URIs, data and things instead of webpages and photoshop.

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We’re talking Linked Data.

Linked Data cloud diagram http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05_colored.pngSunday, March 15, 2009

Adopting LOD principles makes sense because you create coherent usable services – human literate services.

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Colon Slash Slash http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffsmallwood/299208539/Sunday, March 15, 2009