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 Precisely. At the other side of the universe is
the back of my head.
The
problem of semantics is find a means to see the other side
of
another universe and know that it is someone else's bald spot
before
I sue the barber or buy a toupee.
XML
gives us:
o Lexical unification. One ring (parser) to
rule them all. A systems
bridge, really.
o Validation on requirement - a standard means to
establish
in
advance of a transaction that the names, structure, and a
limited amount of range and datatype information is
required
for
that transaction to complete and then to exercise that
means
optionally or by policy.
The
begattings give us most of the rest of what gets debated
here.
Experience informs me that the universes of information
are
too
diverse and too tightly coupled to the dynamics of
feedback between environment and entity to enable a
semantic web to operate seamlessly. It can
work for
some
ecologies. We don't yet know what the limits
of
growth of these are to sustain coherent
operations. Intuition tells me that there
will be a lot
of knashing when the lower level business objects
are used
as services to high-level business process/control
models
such
as can be created with XLang. We have to know
how
well this scales and how well it reinforces. Part of
this
will be simple design skill and the limits of the
design
resources until we have provably good macro
structures to work with and instrumented
tests.
What
we have with XML is sufficient
agreement about a basic bridging technology to
enable
us to test the hypotheses about this against
real
world information and processes.
Caveat
emptor. No certainty. The Semantic Web
remains a theory until we put it to the
test.
Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Jonathan.Robie@S... [mailto:Jonathan.Robie@S...]
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