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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: 30 Oct 1999 06:56:06 -0500
Joe Lapp <jlapp@webMethods.com> writes:
> RDF may be simple at heart, but is it reasonable to ask the average
> user to figure it out, to expect that the average user of metadata
> will even be able to grok the abstractions? I may be reiterating
> your earlier sentiment, but I worry that the abstractions are as
> much an impediment as the spec and the syntax.
I don't think so -- the average user never even caught on to the HTML
<meta> element. Personally, I'm much more interested in RDF for B2B
data exchange than I am in convincing Jane User to stick RDF in her
Web pages. Besides, B2B is where the money and excitement is right
now.
All the best,
David
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