I'm surprised that they haven't collaborated with the MusicBrainz project. That seems to be one problem with these Semantic Web projects, they don't see to have awarness of what other people have already done. MusicBrainz is collection a lot of information on artists, records, composers, etc. and they're even going to have more classical-oriented support soon.
Agreed...
Slashdot would benefit from a more standards based and user-centric design. In-fact, there have been projects (Viz. A List Apart Magazine's Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards)
But Slashdot runs on Slashcode so if we want to have a better system it's up to us as the open-source developers , etc. to make one... Perhaps the Slashdot management thinks so too?
I'm experienced with web-design and CSS / XHTML / PHP etc. so if anybody is interested in updating Slashdot give me an e-mail.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately, a lot of people are changing reality to match theory.
I'm surprised that they haven't collaborated with the MusicBrainz project. That seems to be one problem with these Semantic Web projects, they don't see to have awarness of what other people have already done. MusicBrainz is collection a lot of information on artists, records, composers, etc. and they're even going to have more classical-oriented support soon.
Agreed... Slashdot would benefit from a more standards based and user-centric design. In-fact, there have been projects (Viz. A List Apart Magazine's Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards) But Slashdot runs on Slashcode so if we want to have a better system it's up to us as the open-source developers , etc. to make one... Perhaps the Slashdot management thinks so too? I'm experienced with web-design and CSS / XHTML / PHP etc. so if anybody is interested in updating Slashdot give me an e-mail.