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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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