Piggy Bank by SIMILE Project

Is the semantic web useful somehow?
The most obvious answer is not yet. RDF, OWL are established protocols but the software who simplify end-user's life is still missing.
The problem in this situation is the proliferation of parallel even if similar and more handy technologies which have begun to apear and go under the name of web 2.0.
In this situation a software like Piggy Bank by SIMILE Project gains importance.
Only by well written prototypes you can explain, divulgate and sponsorize the use of the right standard and the importance of taking the right path of developing now before it's too late.
Piggy Bank does it by demonstrating that the right use of theese technologies can simplify user's life.
The strong points of the software are:

• Bleading hedge Semantic Web technology
• Strict W3c standards conformance
• Focus on Visions and scenarios from the end user perspective to illustrate the use of the plugin
  
• The use of Page tagging or labeling or keywording or however you want to call it
• The maximum opening to future developing and expansion
• The demonstrated ability in integrating other technologies such as the google map API ,javascript, xslt, and others.
  

The labeling feature in particular turns the user into the main character of his semantic web classification. Tagging in general is gaining popularity among those who uses Gmail and a future developing of thunderbird should address the tagging issue.
The things to improve it IMHO go toward the end user (sorry but that's what I am):

• Push on usability and keep the too rich actual interface for semantic web experts and developers (Personally I like it but It took me half an hour to orientate myself).
  
• Submit this wonderful experiment to institutions like w3c, oasis and others because they lack of examples of working applications of their still too abstract concepts.
• The skins: Piggy bank can collect "pure" RDF data or RSS, or "screen scrapered" data. It would be nice to map theese origin with templates depending on the type (rdf:type) of information
  

Anyway thank you for now to this wonderful team.
More on Tagging:
http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html
http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2005/09/28/Quick-Study-Tag-Use-Patterns.html
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=273419&highlight=tags+labels+keywords

Viva Zapatero!

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Come si dice di solito: si può essere o meno d'accordo con le idee di Sabina Guzzanti ma il modo in cui le esprime é molto efficace.
E' la stessa cosa che si può dire della Fallaci.
Temo che le donne abbiano preso il sopravvento sugli uomini per quanto riguarda l'incisività politica e la capacità di convincere.
Immagino e spero che questo paragone risulti stridente a molti.