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Re: Re: A modest conception of the Semantic Web

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: Re: A modest conception of the Semantic Web
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:19:53 -0600
• Cc: "'jborden@a...'" <jborden@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> of "Fri, 10 May 2002 09:03:45 CDT." <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B433@HQ5>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> True as long as the issues of authoritative 
> classification are resolved as well.  Then 
> the notion of subscribing to a classification 
> service becomes more attractive.  Credentials 
> count.  When dealing with a business, one 
> qualifies the contenders.  That is something 
> the DAML+OIL language could be used for in a 
> web service.

Yes, and this is one of the things that I think distinguishes our closed-world success story from scaling this concept to the Web.  In many cases we were able to solve "web of trust" type problems through policy.

However, I think that once you simplify the problem to classifications, you also simplify the authority problem, because the level of authoritativeness just becomes a meta-classification, and can be operated on using the same class of automata as those that operate on the rest of the ontology.  I think that if such ontologies can scale to the Web at all, that they will be able to handle classifications of authority.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/
DAML Reference - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/01/damlref.html
The Languages of the Semantic Web - http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2453/new1020218556549/index.html
XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel

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