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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:10:57AM -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> A simple question, but one that could get to
> the heart of whether or not we should expect
> to see growth in the semantic web business:
>
> What are some services that SemWeb
> applications could expose for discovery
> and integration into web client applications
> including mobile applications?
Do you mean Semantic "Web Services", or "Semantic Web" services? The
former, IMO, is best ignored, because it's tied to Web services/SOA
which I don't consider workable for Internet scale integration. But the
latter is extremely promising, and something I've been working with for
a few years.
As for the services that these application could expose, I'd say simply
that they should expose as much of their data as possible. That way a
consumer of the data can repurpose it for their own needs, rather than
having the application expose it in a manner conducive only to how they
saw the data being used at the time it was written. In other words, I
don't find it particularly useful to think in terms of "services".
Applications should also consider publishing data about their data,
including data about when their data changes; RSS, for example. But
that can, in many cases, be easily offloaded to an application which is
subscribed to the data provided by the other applications.
Mark.
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Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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