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Making computers human literate Tom Scott Sunday, March 15, 2009

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Making computers human literate

Tom Scott

Sunday, March 15, 2009

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

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

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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.

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

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