[iDC] please make comments regarding semantic overlay term
Paul Prueitt
psp at ontologystream.com
Sun Mar 16 16:43:48 UTC 2008
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
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