Re: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: [xml-dev] InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)

Joshua Allen wrote:

  > The thread that provoked my response was suggesting that Google is
> somehow achieving the vision of semantic web.  Google may be
> accomplishing great things, but what it is achieving should not be
> confused with the vision of semantic web.  Regardless of how realistic
> that vision is, you would have to revise the vision of "semantic web" to
> honestly claim that Google is achieving that vision.
> 

Just so, but others are using Google data to do things that start to 
edge into Semantic Web-like territory (like the TAP project).

So there is hope.

Cheers,

Tom P

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Thomas B. Passin
Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Manning Books)
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