I stumbled across this post on scoring a semantic web application on a 10 point killer scale. [OK, well actually I wrote it.]
So let me score my project INQLE on this scale.
At this writing, IQNLE is very "early doors" (version 0.0.9). Currently, INQLE scores 6 on the 10 point scale. However, our vision/roadmap puts INQLE on a path to score about 8.5:
Immediate Value to User
+1: The tool adds immediate value to the human user. INQLE permits automated machine learning experiments. Users must merely load data and they can then immediately start running experiments.
+1: We are aware of no product that does this.
+1: The tool is free.
Generation of Semantic (RDF) Data
+0.5: INQLE allows users to generate data in spreadsheets (as they are want to do). Users must then use the INQLE interface to import that data.
+1: The new semantic data that INQLE generates are assertions about the correlations that exist between different things in the universe.
+1: Those things which INQLE correlates are real world objects. Some of INQLE's future sampling algorithms will combine local data with remote, pre-existing RDF entities.
Consumption of Semantic (RDF) Data
+1: In future versions of INQLE, users will be able to annotate how valid or trivial or novel or spurious a correlation is.
+0: Such human annotation will require use of INQLE's interface.
+1: Future INQLE algorithms will be able to discover the results of past experiments.
+1: INQLE can then use the power of linked data and semantic reasoning, to perform repeated or related experiments. INQLE servers can therefore accrue an expanding body of knowledge.
So 8.5 out of 10 is pretty decent. But we have to remember that we (and by "we", we mean "I") wrote the damn thing, thru our own myopic specs.
So is INQLE the killer app for the semantic web? Um if your standard for a killer app is Google then probably not. But if you could live with lower expectations and if INQLE could really deliver on its ambition to effect true artificial intelligence and/or revolutionize the way research & discovery is done, then it could deliver some degree of killerness.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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