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On xml-dev, urn:oid:1.2.826.0.1.4062548.2.1 (:-) wrote:
>
> As I see it (and will probably now be flamed for):
>
> Web Services are web sites providing programmeable interfaces as well as
> human interfaces.
This is the clearest definition of what a "Web Service" is
that I have yet seen.
> It depends on two interesting things we have yet to really resolve:
> 1) How to find [e.g.] all the auction sites out there.a [...]
> 2) Standardising APIs for various things. [...]
Also a good summary of the problems to be solved.
> The semantic web is [... dense screenful of text slightly edited ...]
> [...] a Web of *information* [...]
> [...] standardising the metaschemas [...]
> [...] not just hyperlinks [...]
> [...] making an implicit link [...]
> [...] making interrelated statements about [...]
> [...] a set of 'things' with 'relationships' between them [...]
> [...] Using standard relationships [...]
> [...] 'Alaric Blagrave Snell' [...] 'Is A Human Being' [...]
> [...] metadata about the relationship [...]
> [...] religious affiliations, national affiliations, and so on. [...]
Also, alas, one of the clearest descriptions of the "Semantic Web"
that I have yet to see. And I *still* don't understand it :-)
--Joe English
jenglish@fligthlab.com
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