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Re: Issues with XML and Semantic Web ?


problems with rdf

As I cannot get to the challenge :), I will talk about the pre-challenge 
portion.

I think syntax is only 1 of the problems with RDF - but definitely a 
problem. RPV makes syntax better, but not sure if it works..

Other problems with RDF as mentioned --
1. Even if I know the "predicate", I have to look up and find out the 
predicate.
2. for RPV, where R and V are both URIs, there is a confusion between 
whether we should write RPV or VPR -- this will be a problem, probably the 
predicate explanation will have to include this, with examples..

Who can benefit from inferencing supported? - I believe domains where 
people do not mind doing this bit of extra work, provided they get lot of 
benefit. I think data (and not metadata) describing symptoms of diseases, 
and symptoms of symptoms etc in the medical domain from different parts of 
the world/different hospitals etc??

best, murali.

Note; In RDF Schema, I am curious why subproperties do not talk anything 
about domain and range being subclasses.. To ensure that the logic stays 
in first-order? I am not sure if this will affect a lot, when do we need 
subproperties/subclasses in the first place?? Not in the application 
domains that I am thinking of??

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dave Beckett wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:32:22 -0800, Ronald Bourret
> <rpbourret@r...> wrote:
>> Tim Bray wrote:
>>> Just a reminder that the RDF.net challenge is still open: see
>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/21/RDFNet (you can skip
>>> all the history and markup-pedantry and jump to the challenge itself, at
>>> the bottom of that essay).  -Tim
>>
>> I read the history and markup-pedantry and skipped the challenge :)
>
> <snip/>
>
> I read it all and decided XML couldn't even meet the challenge at that point
> after 5 years of XML.
>
> Maybe, just *maybe* RSS with some aggregator (web based or otherwise)
> would meet that, a year or so later, for XML.  I wouldn't say it's a
> brilliant XML
> format - it's not even 1 format and you especially have to hold your nose
> if you look at all the &-escaping and encoding issues.
>
> Dave

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