From: Jim Hendler (hendler@cs.umd.edu)
Date: 04/04/02
>... and reinforces the assertion which began >this exchange: Some folks, who go to www.daml.org to be convinced they >should start using DAML+OIL, are not finding the right kind of material to >convince them. that, btw, I believe is true! Back when I was involved in your project I strongly urged the community to help make that web site better. I point out the following - we took over a year to get 1M hits on the page, about 6 months to get the second 1M hits, and recently (<3 months) we broke the 3rd million - the site is now getting an average somewhere around 10,000 hits per day (that's enough to sell advertising :->) and the continued interest of DARPA and the outside world in what the PIs in this program are doign is reflected in that. But, David is absolutely right - a lot of those people aren't finding what they want, and a lot of stuff on the site is starting to go downhill (the library search doesn't work, and the new entries to the library have fallen off) -- I suspect this is allowing the locus of interest to move to other sites and that is probably a bad thing for the future of your program. anyway, hope you don't mind this kibbitzing from a former member of the community, and I sure wish you'd all work a little harder to make a lot of people's first portal to the semantic web a more useful experience... -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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