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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Success factors for the Web and Semantic Web
 > To me, TimBL's vision is clear but the process isn't. Let's clarify thet: > There are just a few problems with the Semantic Web vision that need to be > solved (not moaned at, or used as evidence to show how the SW will fail!):- > > 1. A Namespace is not definitive. Two different langauges point > to the same NS, but it has no Schema - which one is correct? I don't know what this means. What is this "language"? Is it an XML vocabulary/schema? What is this "correct"? Is it a matter of authority to use a namespace? > (Action: make sure that namespaces are dereferencable) Even more confused now. How does making namespaces dereferencable solve whatever problem obtains from having different languages reference a single namespace? > 2. A Namespace is still not definitive. Tim's example was of a URI > for Zip codes. There could be hundreds of them: no one is going > to use the same one! I'm still not understanding you. > 3. There is no current way to ascribe structure to extended RDF. > (Action: > create a way!) What is this "extended RDF"? I'm not even sure I can guess what it is. > it used to be. THe best actions to create a Semantic Web IMO are (based on > Tim's ramblings):- > > 1. Create XML to RDF extraction tools. Happenning all the while. Examples include Jonathan Borden's work, and that of Dan Connolly, who even has a system for extracting RDF from RFC822. There is much knowledge staggering about the ether in RFC822. > 2. Create notepad databases of RDF Can you explain this? > 3. Link ontologies to real world problems This should be a fundamental requirement of any ontological engagement. I haven't heard of efforts that don't meet this. > 4. Create GUIs for the RDF model See the work of Dan Brickley and others. One of my Fourthought colleagues is doing some work in this field as well. > 5. Stop moaning about it and get to work! Well, from your 1, 3 and 4, I'd have to conclude that the semantic Web is well on the way, but I think your list is not exhaustive. -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python 
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