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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Success factors for the Web and Semantic Web
 Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > Or maybe I just prefer a worse-is-better approach of slowly stumbling > toward a fragmented but practical semantic web rather than a directed march > toward the Semantic Web. Since I strongly suspect that 'semantic web' does > not equal 'Semantic Web', I may be missing the point, but I'm certainly > doing so deliberately. > I'd say this is just about right. The types of applications of the 'semantic web' (lowercase) tend to be domain specific/knowledge intensive rather than mass market. Healthcare is an example but clearcut and palpable benefit needs to be proven before any such technology will be widely adopted . This can be a simple as using HTML forms which generate data in a controlled vocabulary, and demonstrating how data in such a controlled vocabulary can be easily transformed into something readable by humans (the converse is not so simple). In any case, just as the vast majority of people who browse web pages know nothing about HTML, the vast majority of people who will use this technology ought not need to know its internal workings: what they see is that if they click here and here and here out jumps this report, and at the end of the year look at this great data analysis. Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org 
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