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Sauterne was: Re: XML/RDF

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• Subject: Sauterne was: Re: XML/RDF
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:43:22 -0500
• Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>

Mike Champion wrote:

[[
There's some Semantic Web stuff I find very intriguing, e.g. applying
WebOnt to SNOMED, or the Canegie-Mellon stuff on scheduling
(http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=529).  Then again, they're
applying RDF to well-understood, localized domains.
Sortof like SOAP-RPC -- a reasonable solution
to a limited domain problems, but my hackles go up go up when
people start talking about it as the Next Big Thing.  I guess it really
*is* the hype that bothers me ... and there's something about hype
that just gets under my skin and makes me want to debunk it rather
than doing something more productive with my time ...
]]

Yeah well I remember when XML first came out and it was promised to
revolutionize search engines by allowing web pages to be classified
according to 'semantic markup' ... never happened. Two lessions:

1) if a technology delivers 10% of what is hyped, that is generally a great
thing.
2) some of us are still working on that initial promise, and progress is
being made, albeit slowly http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/

I'd like to think that the Semantic Web is what SGML on the Web was always
supposed to be ... now unfortunately at this early stage it's terribly
(almost not at all) integrated with XML in general but that's a different
issue...

Jonathan

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