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Topic Maps vs. RDF+DAML+OIL? RDF is inferior? What's RDF's value in the

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• Subject: Topic Maps vs. RDF+DAML+OIL? RDF is inferior? What's RDF's value in the effort to Semantic Web?
• From: "Collin" <collin@s...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:51:00 +0800
• Cc: "Oscar Corcho" <ocorcho@f...>,"David Greiff" <david.greiff@i...>,<larsga@o...>
• Reply-to: "Collin" <collin@s...>

HI, rdf world:
    
    Garshol seems to be quite in favor of his Topic Maps in his paper "Topic maps, RDF, DAML, OIL:A comparison" (available at:http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tmrdfoildaml.html). 
    However, after looking into their diagram representations in light of Semantic Network, I found it is indeed that Topic Maps(TM) inherently precedes RDF family(RDF+DAML+OIL) and RDF is, at heart, a relative lower-level knowledge representation language with at least one level lost. 
    
    So what's RDF's value in the effort to Semantic Web? 
    
Collin
    

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