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RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathre

• To: <martind@n...>,Bill de hOra <bill.dehora@p...>,"XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:07:14 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)

> > Entscheidungsproblem. Does that make computing today not useful by
> > virtue of being restricted to limited applications (or as Picasso
> > pointed out, computers can only give you answers)?  This stuff
> > doesn't have to be formally correct or all encompassing to be
useful.
> 
> I agree, knowledge representation tech. is useful to certain domain
> applications; in a couple of years, probably more than that. But as
you
> know, progress is as slow as a slug. In the meantime the TAP project
from
> Standard is addressing some of my concerns from the operational point
of
> view (ref: http://tap.stanford.edu/j1.html)

Well, I think we will see proof very soon that storing your metadata as
triples will be very useful, and this will probably impact significantly
more people in the short term than TAP.  I'm not arguing that TAP is not
interesting, but I think you are overly limiting yourself by restricting
the discussion to KR, "frames", "AI" or whatever.

At the basic level, the first step is about an open and interoperable
metadata format.  That alone should be interesting and will prove to be
very useful, IMO.

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