Re: [xml-dev] RE: Ten years after: what are the top 5 ?

["Alexander Johannesen" <alexander.johannesen@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 13:29, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:
> So perhaps we can amend my comment to: I have a perception of people
> adopting RDF (in XML) then figuring out they didn't get any extra benefit
> over using plain old XML or an optimized RDF notation.

What, so you only want examples where people use XML in boring and
obvious ways? :)

You *can* do RDF in XML where the ontologies are clever and the
notation of getting from model to implementation is low, i.e. well
designed and thought-out systems, but they are indeed far and wide
apart. Because semantic data modeling is a reasonably new thing
(although in Internet years it's really dog years by now) people tend
to do large and fluffy ontology work (not to mention that I think the
RDF people did a large and fluffy meta model when they designed RDF
itself).

The last few years have seen some pretty good improvements, with more
concise and practical RDF ontologies, so I think we're seeing
acceleration of use that will have an important impact on the future
of computing, for sure.


Alex
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