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At 8:21 PM +0200 6/3/04, J.Pietschmann wrote: >Well, I'm with Clay Shirky that the semantic web is still a bit >far away for the general public, but there are definitively >interesting use cases within organizations. Think of support >for semi-automated mapping of data fields from several interface >standards onto DB fields. Of course you still need to put a lot >of manual labour into refining the ontologies and possibly custom >enhancements for the inference engine, but even a 70% correct >generated mapping or impact analysis saves already a lot of work. In the words of Clara Peller, "Show me the beef." I keep hearing people say things like "semi-automated mapping of data fields from several interface standards onto DB fields" but I don't know what that means or why I should care. More importantly, I can't find anyone actually doing using semantic web technologies to solve problems. It's sort of like cattle mutilations: you hear all these stories about surgically precise organ extraction, but every single time you actually drive your pickup out in the field and look at a mutilated cow, it's a very non-precise coyote attack. Well, every time I drive my pickup over to a semantic web success story what I find is XML and custom code, with little if any RDF or OWL. Certainly that's what I kept hearing at WWW 2004 in every semantic web case study. If there are real success stories here, then shouldn't someone be able to demonstrate one? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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