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RE: Semantic Web for the Masses, by the Masses
- To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
- Subject: RE: Semantic Web for the Masses, by the Masses
- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:46:58 -0600
"3. The
semantic web must be self-regulating."
I ask
again as I asked the W3C TAG in the context of a
self-descriptive system, what is this 'self' you are
referring to? It is the value proposition of the information use
that
determines the tool, not the medium of discovery or
distribution.
If
there is more information, there is more noise. Noise implies
filters.
The
implications depend on the context of use and any duties or obligations
explicitly assumed or implicitly consented to by use.
Tagging, folksonomies, metadata in leather pouches, are all good stuff
as
long as the context of use is known and the risks of using the
semantics of the masses are assumed by the user. I don't want to
argue
the case for the 'wisdom of crowds' because
again, too many cases made
for debugging code (a limited domain that
has a third non-human player
called a computer) are being applied to
information domains that have
legal implications with the assumption the
technology is bridging a
trivial semantic gap that proves not to be
trivial in practice. (BTW: not
known apriori but established as used or in
later review.)
Who is
liable for false information, deliberate distortions, and mistakes of
omission?
As
long as the use is explicitly caveat emptor, this fine. If the case
becomes
respondeat superior or caveat vendor, this is not
fine.
I
think Wales is smart to make contributions to Wikipedia less anonymous.
Anonymous contributions to a resource should get the lowest credibility
if
allowed at all.
Because of gaming, sheer numbers as the basis of agreement to establish
a
semantic are insufficient and ranking of authorities has to be
dynamic.
len
Semantic
Web for the Masses, by the Masses
Roger L. Costello
1. To enriched the
Web with semantics will require everyone pitch in to add descriptions
(semantics) to individual Web documents.
1.1 Semantics will
not be added by semantic gurus, but, rather, by the common
users.
Example: A person (a common user) takes a JPG photo of
a coastline, and then annotates it
with this description:
"This
is a picture of the New England
coastline."
2. The barrier to
entry must be low. That is, the barrier to a common user adding a
description (i.e., semantics) to a Web document must be
low.
2.1 Complex
ontology languages such as RDF and OWL are out of reach for all but the
semantic gurus, and are thus not used. Even "vanilla XML" is out of reach for the common user, and is
thus not used.
2.2 A Web document
is enriched with semantics by the common user simply writing a description,
in a natural language such as
English (see above for an
example of a
description).
3. The semantic
web must be self-regulating.
3.1 A description
that is written by one common user may be edited by another common user.
Presumably the later common user has more knowledge and is thus able to
correct or add to the description.
Example. A second person with further information edits the
above description:
"This is a picture of the New England
coastline, near the Boston harbor."
3.2 Common
users regulate themselves - they ensure that all descriptions of a
Web document are consistent.
4. The tool used
by the common user to annotate a Web document with a description (semantics)
must be lightweight.
4.1 A simple text
box with a basic editor and
versioning will suffice.
5. Advanced
semantic machine processing are services provided by a limited set
of companies which employ Ph.D semantic gurus.
5.1 Company XYZ is one of those limited set of
companies. It employs Ph.D semantic gurus. They write
advanced code to process all the descriptions written by the common
users. They use RDF and OWL, if they desire.
Comments?
/Roger
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