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Re: WSIO vs. Semantic Web

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• Subject: Re: WSIO vs. Semantic Web
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:09:14 -0800
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On xml-dev, urn:oid:1.2.826.0.1.4062548.2.1 (:-) wrote:
>
> As I see it (and will probably now be flamed for):
>
> Web Services are web sites providing programmeable interfaces as well as
> human interfaces.

This is the clearest definition of what a "Web Service" is
that I have yet seen.


> It depends on two interesting things we have yet to really resolve:
>  1) How to find [e.g.] all the auction sites out there.a [...]
>  2) Standardising APIs for various things. [...]

Also a good summary of the problems to be solved.


> The semantic web is [... dense screenful of text slightly edited ...]
> [...] a Web of *information* [...]
> [...] standardising the metaschemas [...]
> [...] not just hyperlinks [...]
> [...] making an implicit link [...]
> [...] making interrelated statements about [...]
> [...] a set of 'things' with 'relationships' between them [...]
> [...] Using standard relationships [...]
> [...] 'Alaric Blagrave Snell' [...] 'Is A Human Being' [...]
> [...] metadata about the relationship [...]
> [...] religious affiliations, national affiliations, and so on. [...]

Also, alas, one of the clearest descriptions of the "Semantic Web"
that I have yet to see.  And I *still* don't understand it :-)


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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