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• To: martind@n...
• Subject: RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:21:28 -0400
• Cc: XML Developer List <xml-dev@l...>
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>I was thinking about the challenge you set in an earlier message: get an
>inexpensive tool allowing to do some useful work with RDF. Here is one, a
>free one: Protégé. You can import-export RDF statements and create forms to
>fill the slots (i.e. property's values). Creating a form is quite easy. With
>this form you can create other RDF statements and even link them together
>and see the result in a graph. The critic I may have against the tool is too
>much emphasis on a platonic approach; I would prefer a prototype approach.

I'm sorry. That's not a concrete enough example 
to satisfy me. You've got an RDF tool doing RDF 
operations. That's a bit circular. What I want to 
see is an RDF tool that lets me order tickets for 
a concert, or close the books of the company at 
the end of the month, or find the right album 
cover to match a song in my MP3 player, or 
something practical that I want to do 
irrespective of whether it's done with RDF or XML 
or something else. How can RDF make my job of 
writing one of these applications (or some other 
useful application of your choice) easier?

--

   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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