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   RE: RDF, the "semantic web", and the nadir of AI (was RE: Realist icprop

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  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
  • To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:26:19 -0500

Because it gets us into the same trap of trying to have one service 
in the system dominate the design and direction.  That is a bad idea 
from the start.  It would be disastrous if all of the specifications 
became bogged down trying to satisfy the requirements of meta-vocabularies. 
It is a stone of sysyphus.   

Perhaps one should step back and ask the question, if semantics are 
the dominating requirement for a next generation web, what requirements 
emerge easily from that?  If you can't get that straight and explain 
it, then the terminology is worse than useless; it actively defeats 
the ability of developers to understand what they should do next.

If you say however, we have a set of standard XML application languages that

inference engine services can exchange by a stateless asynchronous protocol
of 
messages, you have a well-established professional cadre of engineers who 
understand what needs to be done.  They have worked on such since Turing 
and VonNeumman talked about such and nothing about cs has changed except 
the acceptance of commodity protocols and markup has changed.

Len Bullard
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clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@home.com]

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.




 

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