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At 21:00 21/07/2006, Costello, Roger L. wrote: >Hi Folks, > >Once again, many thanks for your outstanding comments. Below I have >tried to recap the core assertions. I am sure that many of the >assertions could be worded better or more precisely. Please let me >know. And as always, I welcome your critique of the assertions. /Roger > Roger, Many thanks indeed for catalyzing this discussion which I think has the possibility to lead to practical advances. I shall make a practical suggestion in a separate post I don't agree with your distinction between visible and hidden web. Henry Rzepa and I have argued that (at least for scientific communication) a single XML document should be used to represent the information and should be repurposed for sighted humans, unsighted humans and machines as required; We call this XML a "datument": See http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i01/Murray-Rust/ (peer-reviewed Open Access article) >ASSERTION #1<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = >"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > >There is little usage of XML on the visible Web. That is, the >information available to the end user (or his/her browser) is >primarily in the form of (X)HTML, not XML. > >ASSERTION #2 > >XML is not appropriate for the visible Web. XML will continue to >have limited usage on the visible Web. As Len Bullard says, "XML is >plumbing". For us XML is *not* plumbing. It is a means of representing a community's semantics and vocabulary (CML has over 100 elements and 200 attributes). It is therefore particularly appropriate where communities exist, and I see this especially in STM - Science/Technical/Medical. We are working closely with publishers who are interested in publishing XML/CML directly and we expect some first examples RSN. While I accept that the main current purpose of the Web is for large organisations to use it to further their business (political or commercial), there is a sizeable remainder in numeric terms of people who wish to develop the Web as a means for communicating ideas in machine-processable form beyond HTML. Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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