I want to support Todd's point with a specific example.
Frank Lillehagen observed that people appreciate a spatial zoom capability when
working with displays.
He reasoned that a semantic zoom would be appreciated even more.
His subsequent successes with application software has demonstrated this value
proposition.
Frank Lillehagen
Senior advisor
frank.lillehagen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Blog: http://activeknowledgemodeling.com/
http://www.commitment.no
I have no business relationship with Frank's ventures.
Jack Ring (01)
On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Todd J Schneider wrote: (02)
> Nicola's last e-mail reminded me of why I like semantically
> based solutions. You can more easily find the 'view' of the
> information (or whatever) that suits your needs and intent.
>
> So we can provide 'a' PowerPoint summary of the summit
> communique, but it would further the goals of the summit to
> provide the underlying material needed so others can craft
> their message as needed to meet their intents and goals.
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
> From:
> Nicola Guarino <nicolguar@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:
> Todd Schneider <tjschneider@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:
> Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee
> <ontology-summit-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mills Davis
> <mdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
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> Date:
> 03/22/2011 11:46 AM
> Subject:
> Re: [ontology-summit-org] [ontology-summit] A Powerpoint communique?
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>
> Hi, I am in favour of a good paper with nice pictures (taken from
> Powerpoint slides), a kind of "white paper" for making a well-motivated
> position statement.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicola
>
> On 22/mar/2011, at 14:51, Todd Schneider <tjschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>>> It occurred to me that our target audience (business people who can
> make decisions) may be more likely to see a Powerpoint pitch than wade
> through 4-6 pages of text. Which would YOU be more inclined to look at?
> What are your thoughts?
>>> For me, I personally prefer to read a good paper for a topic that
> interests me. Nevertheless, it takes less than a minute to scan through a
> slide deck and get enough of the gist to decide to read more carefully. If
> people wrote excellent abstracts, I could do the same for a text document,
> but you can never trust that they will.
>>
>> --->>>You have an excellent point. However, I assume the summit
> participants
>> would actually like to communicate. What I would suggest is do
> both.
>> Having created the communique, PowerPoint slides could then be
> created.
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>
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