[iDC] please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

[Danny Ayers]

On 16/03/2008, Paul Prueitt <psp at ontologystream.com> wrote:
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>  Claimed as a fact:  The W3C standards have foundational errors which
>  will not support knowledge sharing beyond a certain point.

It may well be that the W3C standards will not support knowledge
sharing beyond a certain point - but we're a long, long way off that
point. We're only a decade or so into the document Web, and yet still
innovations are occurring there. The more generalized data Web that
Semantic Web technologies enable promise a massive expansion of
opportunities.

I'm not sure quite what you have in mind with "foundational errors" -
the maths behind RDF etc is fairly well known, although software
modeling of real-world or conceptual systems is almost always
imperfect. The entity-relationship style of modeling has proven itself
very useful in traditional systems, and RDF offers a way of doing this
which is built on the same foundations as the Web (in short: give
entities URIs; give relationships URIs - see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data).

It may be the case that the designs and base architectures underlying
virtually all software systems is flawed. Yet still those systems can
be useful.

Cheers,
Danny.

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