Comments on: City of Brotherly Love http://musematic.net/2008/10/13/city-of-brotherly-love/ Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM's Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:42:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce Falk http://musematic.net/2008/10/13/city-of-brotherly-love/comment-page-1/#comment-11208 Bruce Falk Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:18:12 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=515#comment-11208 Hi, Nik. The only context in which I've ever heard of Web 3.0 references OWL and SPARQL in the development of the 'semantic web,' which I've always understood to be a vast universe of consistently-tagged data (and datasets), which can then in some way yield greater versatility of search and turn the web into a gigantic portal of apps built to suck in only-relevant data. Can't say I wholly understand the concept (something about "smart" searching that leads to AI-built free associations from the commonalities of a variety of search terms which may or may not actually be contained within a given data set or tag cloud/set), but there are places such as the newly-launched site Twine which claim to explain this concept coherently. (I didn't understand the Wikipedia article on semantic web -- too techy.) Hi, Nik. The only context in which I’ve ever heard of Web 3.0 references OWL and SPARQL in the development of the ‘semantic web,’ which I’ve always understood to be a vast universe of consistently-tagged data (and datasets), which can then in some way yield greater versatility of search and turn the web into a gigantic portal of apps built to suck in only-relevant data. Can’t say I wholly understand the concept (something about “smart” searching that leads to AI-built free associations from the commonalities of a variety of search terms which may or may not actually be contained within a given data set or tag cloud/set), but there are places such as the newly-launched site Twine which claim to explain this concept coherently. (I didn’t understand the Wikipedia article on semantic web — too techy.)

]]> By: Richard http://musematic.net/2008/10/13/city-of-brotherly-love/comment-page-1/#comment-11121 Richard Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:27:07 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=515#comment-11121 The side-by-side posts about museums both being at the forefront of TECHNOLOGY and being mostly TECHNOLOGY illiterate is priceless. This explains a question I've long pondered about the dearth of tech oriented sessions at AAM. I've always wanted to be a good museum pro and proudly march off to AAM, but when push came to shove MCN or M&W was always a better bet. Not that AAM should become THE place to learn about TECHNOLOGY, but it would be nice if it wasn't ignorant. Thanks for putting up a good fight. The side-by-side posts about museums both being at the forefront of TECHNOLOGY and being mostly TECHNOLOGY illiterate is priceless.

This explains a question I’ve long pondered about the dearth of tech oriented sessions at AAM. I’ve always wanted to be a good museum pro and proudly march off to AAM, but when push came to shove MCN or M&W was always a better bet.
Not that AAM should become THE place to learn about TECHNOLOGY, but it would be nice if it wasn’t ignorant. Thanks for putting up a good fight.

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