DAML Demos - slide "Data"

personal opinion: the key challenge now is to bootstrap the Semantic Web with sufficient reference data
- we could go a very long way by DAMLizing 100 or so popular sources (countries, airports, companies, time zones, colleges and universities, sports teams, etc.)
positive steps
- DAML Data Sources page and wishlist
- TAP KB
- OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects
dynamic data
- generation from databases
  - GeoNames in DAML: http://www.daml.org/cgi-bin/geonames?f-3393888 (HyperDAML) representing a specific cave in Afghanistan
- generation from HTML
  - DAML HTML Gateway Tools: http://www.daml.org/cgi-bin/nyse?HPQ
- represents "low hanging fruit"
  - much easier to convert HTML-producing Active Server Pages or servlets or write new programs than manually markup lots of data