[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: "RDF + Topic Maps" = The Future
Topic Maps are following a path laid out by its inventors before RDF existed. So, cat out of hat but don't blame the cat for that. But do we have to have one or the other? Umm... has anyone seriously suggested that CSS should go away now that XSL:FOs can be used? From this seat, it looks to me as if Topic Maps will as other specs have, thrive on simplicity. RDF may or may not depending on the complexity of applying and resolving all of these ontologies everyone is excited about. Frankly, local rules prevail. It helps if you can get the spec into a procurement so someone will pay the ontologists and authoritatively assert that their arcs are the holyArcs. Sitting here watching the Dr Dobbs streaming videos from the conference, it is glorious to see Sperberg-McQueen lecturing on the state of the standards under the viewer header for "God and Computers; Donald Knuth". I had always suspected this triple was in fact, the same URI. I have applied to be the Manu of the next age, but that is purely an honorific URI and should not become part of the next layer of logical assertion. ;-) Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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