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> True as long as the issues of authoritative
> classification are resolved as well. Then
> the notion of subscribing to a classification
> service becomes more attractive. Credentials
> count. When dealing with a business, one
> qualifies the contenders. That is something
> the DAML+OIL language could be used for in a
> web service.
Yes, and this is one of the things that I think distinguishes our closed-world success story from scaling this concept to the Web. In many cases we were able to solve "web of trust" type problems through policy.
However, I think that once you simplify the problem to classifications, you also simplify the authority problem, because the level of authoritativeness just becomes a meta-classification, and can be operated on using the same class of automata as those that operate on the rest of the ontology. I think that if such ontologies can scale to the Web at all, that they will be able to handle classifications of authority.
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Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com
Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/
DAML Reference - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/01/damlref.html
The Languages of the Semantic Web - http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2453/new1020218556549/index.html
XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel
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