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• To: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Subject: RE: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:29:42 -0800
• Cc: "Michael Champion" <michaelc.champion@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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Celsius to Fahrenheit is a much better example than my RSS related date example. Thanks for providing it. 
 
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From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill.dehora@p...]
Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 6:39 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo
Cc: Michael Champion; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA)



Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> One of the things I've found interesting about discussions with the
> RDF/Semantic Web crowd is that many of them fail to see that moving to
> ontologies and the like basically is swapping one mapping mechanism
> (e.g. transformations using XSLT or regular code in your favorite OOP
> language) for another (e.g. creating ontolgies using technologies like
> OWL or DAML+OIL).

I wonder who they might be?


> However the Semantic Web
> related mapping technologies don't allow for the kind of complex and
> messy mappings that occur in the real world.

Like Celsius to Fahrenheit? I don't understand why anyone would be
surprised at this in what is essentially data description work. But
there are cases where something like OWL has value in describing things
- Ian Davis example for Atom versioning comes to mind.

cheers
Bill

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