[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: RDF, the "semantic web", and the nadir of AI (was RE: Realist icprop
Because it gets us into the same trap of trying to have one service in the system dominate the design and direction. That is a bad idea from the start. It would be disastrous if all of the specifications became bogged down trying to satisfy the requirements of meta-vocabularies. It is a stone of sysyphus. Perhaps one should step back and ask the question, if semantics are the dominating requirement for a next generation web, what requirements emerge easily from that? If you can't get that straight and explain it, then the terminology is worse than useless; it actively defeats the ability of developers to understand what they should do next. If you say however, we have a set of standard XML application languages that inference engine services can exchange by a stateless asynchronous protocol of messages, you have a well-established professional cadre of engineers who understand what needs to be done. They have worked on such since Turing and VonNeumman talked about such and nothing about cs has changed except the acceptance of commodity protocols and markup has changed. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@h...] How about "Associative Web" instead of "Semantic Web"? I think that "associate" probably covers everything everyone's brought up, but at the same time is more specific and evocative than "semantic". Services associate a provider with a consumer. You could associate a meaning with a term or resource (if you could figure out how to specify it). And assigning a property/value pair to something can easily be looked upon as asserting an association.
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