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ron servi

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
>
>
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