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Yes, sounds better than 'annotated web', which is what I was using until now :-) -Bill de hÓra >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@h...] >Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:15 PM >To: xml-dev@l... >Cc: uche.ogbuji@f...; 'Dave Winer'; Bullard, Claude L (Len) >Subject: Re: RDF, the "semantic web", and the nadir of AI (was RE: >Realist ic proposals to the W3C?) > > >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. > >When I first heard the term "Semantic Web", I immediately >thought of Tony Buzan's Mind Maps. I use mind maps a lot. >They work by associations. It's interesting, but they >aren't really edge-labeled graphs as we usually think of an >edge-labeled graph, nor are they the node-centric style >either. A mind map has one node, in the center, and edges >radiating out from the central node and branching. Branches >can be cross-linked. The nodes are invisible at the branch >points, and never contain any content. > >A lot of human thinking seems to be done through >association. "Associative Web" suggests, to my mind, >something that augments my thinking and creativity. Just >what I'm hoping for! > >Cheers, > >Tom Passin >
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