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***********Bullard, Claude L (Len) *********** On 10/20/00 at 9:02 AM Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: My intent is to remove the term "semantic web". It means too many different things to people. It becomes like the answer from the Delphic Oracle, "If you go into battle, a great kingdom will be destroyed." True no matter who won so she got to keep being an oracle without contributing anything of value. There is a word for that: vaporware. Len ********************************************************* I agree that the term "semantic" is a poor one for the next generation web. I prefer to think of a "semantic web" as a "interactive web" whereby services, and information changes by my actions using this new web. The more interaction I do upon this new web the better and more efficient the web works for me providing me services and information that is revelant to my needs at that given point. The only problem I see with this "interactive web" that TBL seems to envision is the amount of information kept about one individual and the right to monitor, change, delete or edit this information. In today's web once I pass on information to a service I have little or no control in how that information is used and worse yet how this information is protected. I as a user of this web am forced to trust the good nature of the service and hope that they respect the information I have provided to them. The good news is that except in a few "VERY" isolated cases this respect has been honored. As we build the next generation "semantic web" one of the issues that I see we need to incorporate is to place a value to the information received from any service or information source. This "semantical" value will help me the end user to determine the value of the information I receive from the service or information source. Something like - subjective - in relation to the content fact - a well proven data element fiction - a untrue data element definition - author defined notation history - a data element that has expired and maybe outdated In this context I think we will have to build a extension to the web. Perhaps a new type of call rather then using HTTP. Maybe SWID. For example - swid://fact/xml/developers/?list/-cav/cavre.xml swid = semantical web interactive data fact = data type xml = subject developers = group1 (possible multiple groups such as developers, designers, inventors) ?list = action (always proceeded by ? to let processor know this is a action) -cav = limiters or extenders (in this example limit list to just those names beginning with cav) (a extension might look like "-cav+a" - or limit to cav but add a) cavre.xml = specific data location where data is to be stored after processing. Once we have the data we can than do anything we want with it. Of course all of this is wishful thinking, but a semantical call to the web might appear something like that. But separating the semantics out we could build a semantic node table in the background while the information is being sent to the end user. Therefore when they click upon any association within a document the semantical table will change as needed to assist them in locating the data the end user is looking for or maybe help the user understand the definition intended by the designer of the document. Cavre
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