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RE: RDF, the "semantic web", and the nadir of AI (was RE: Realist ic pro

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: Robin Berjon <robin@k...>, Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:47:12 -0500

The difference in these points of view is:

o Semantic web - the web is a vast library of 
flat resources for which I need an intelligent 
librarian to find and make associations then 
tell me if what I mean is what it means

o Services web - the web is vast machine which 
provides products that can be procured by 
contacting the provider and exchanging information

If a semantic web is just fixing URNs in the place of 
FPIs and System IDs to locate a schema, fine.  Nothing 
new here, but yes, that is what one does as part of 
the creation of a service.  Once you have documents 
to exchange (

1.  Discovery of service.
2.  Agree to terms of service.
3.  Contract with service
4.  Receive products.

You don't have to agree to the document's meaning a priori, 
you need sufficient information to determine they are the 
kind you want, then negotiate terms by which the process 
closes or remediates

Much easier than debating the meaning of meaning.  
Semantic web simply comes down to, it is meaningful 
to me.  IOW, does the service provider accept 
responsibility for ensuring I get the product I 
requested in accordance with the terms to which we 
agreed and to which we affixed signatory authority.

Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@i...
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h

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