Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture

Through the Web Standards Projects Recent Buzz I found Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture to the Royal Society, The Future of the World Wide Web. Highly recommended.

So that was the idea of the Web, that it’s a universal space and should be able to have anything. And this is the idea of minimal design requirements — imposing minimal constraints on the people who are going to use it or the people who are going to design parts of it. … There are a few constraints you have to work under — there are a few standards. So the whole thing hangs on standards, and if you just go away understanding that, of course, it will have been a wonderfully productive evening.

I especially like this London underground style map on connecting data and applications using RDF.