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Hi Ron, Hope you don't mind me jumping in and saying something. > Without this, we'll never be able to automatically exchange / integrate > information, since we'll never agree on a single set of metadata for a > particular concept. Depends on what kind of information needs to be exchanged I guess. Lot's of information does already get exchanged electronically in business. If nothing else, faxes are almost perfect. Coming back to xml, I don't know if you've seen the UBL spec for XML transactions. But they have a pretty reasonable set of unambiguous transactions. Things like biztalk also have users. With UBL, mappings and transformations are a little less important as there is less ambiguity as most of it is defined. I just think as a technology, UBL has just so far to go and so much potential. It's probably one of the most underhyped and undersold technologies that have come out over the last 5 years. That's just my two cents worth anyway, David Quoting Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>: > Dare Obasanjo wrote: > > > However the Semantic Web > > related mapping technologies don't allow for the kind of complex and > > messy mappings that occur in the real world. > > Then what's the point? I should have hoped that Semantic Web > technologies (and ontologies in particular) would have allowed me to say: > > 1) Here's a general concept. > > 2) Here's how you get there from my particular expression of that concept. > > Without this, we'll never be able to automatically exchange / integrate > information, since we'll never agree on a single set of metadata for a > particular concept. > > -- Ron > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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