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[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
 That is fine. Annotated systems are common. One of the most common applications of independent linking is annotating resources particularly where you don't have write access to a resource and you want a means to click on something and get back a navigation control, eg, displaying an n-way link as a select list or dropdown in a moded window. Collaborative systems have made use of this idea for some time now. I think you are dead on in the rest of that. It is an annotation service. That is good thing to have and a proven concept. Engage. 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. The vision of large scale distributed inteoperating services has been around in serious form since the late eighties when the DARPA, CALS, DICE, all began to talk about it. DoD put a lot of money into it because they knew they needed it before businesses would admit it was possible. A lot of the ideas floating around the XML community come from those initiatives. The scale has not changed since those initiatives included suppliers. CALS started as Computer-Aided Logistics and ended up being Commerce At Light Speed. As the acronym became more nebulous, so did the achievements and that is what we want to avoid on this round through the spiral. In this renaming of concepts and revisionist history some think so vital to their reputations or opportunities, it would be good to also learn from past mistakes. Vaporous terms are one of them. It knocks the picture out of focus by expending resources chasing dreams instead of engineering. Oh... and we don't have to fight Microsoft any more. They were a real pain in the early days and not even considered a serious computing platform. They also had a myopia about markup that was considered a deal breaker. That is the one achievement of the WWW that cannot be disputed: Netscape woke up the sleeping giant. What we have not that we didn't have then: cheap processors and memory, agreements on simple presentation languages (the missing piece of the IETM puzzle, should have been 87268 - View Package) and a commodity protocol: HTTP. What does that mean: we can afford the services now. That has changed. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h 
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