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• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:21:28 +0200
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> I've been thinking more about the semantic web myself. I still suspect 
> it's mostly hype, but I'm beginning to see some potential uses.

Well, I'm with Clay Shirky that the semantic web is still a bit
far away for the general public, but there are definitively
interesting use cases within organizations. Think of support
for semi-automated mapping of data fields from several interface
standards onto DB fields. Of course you still need to put a lot
of manual labour into refining the ontologies and possibly custom
enhancements for the inference engine, but even a 70% correct
generated mapping or impact analysis saves already a lot of work.

Heck, it's already somewhat useful for documenting the equivalences
and differences of specialized terms used in different departments
of the organization.

J.Pietschmann

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