[iDC] please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

[Paul Prueitt]

Claimed as a fact:  The W3C standards have foundational errors which  
will not support knowledge sharing beyond a certain point.


Comments:   Many people know this, but the claims of the W3C folks is  
as authorities and the authority of the claims have been so strong  
that no breakthrough in semantic interface will occur, using that  
paradigm.

For example. Radar Networks uses the W3C RDF and OWL to create meta  
tagging, and social networking.  However, the RDF triple is simply  
not "expressive" of a large part of the communication that passes in  
regular discourse.

This division between topic map camps and RDF camps has a long and  
interesting history, with the authority figures like those at  
Sanford, pretending that there never has been any issue worth  
discussion.

This having been said (again), the RDF foundation to meta-tagging  
seen in Radar Networks will be very successful in the market, until  
it is realized that the effort and the underlying capability will  
fail to meet promises.  Ultimately, the market will see that, yet one  
more time, that industry has duped the public.  So be it, this is the  
nature of our social reality, now.  This reality may change at one  
point and many many scientists and on lookers pray that this is  
sooner, rather than later.

This statement, my statement, is not a philosophical one but one  
based in science and scholarly literatures outside of IT.



Paul Prueitt