[iDC] please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

[Paul Prueitt]

The "maths" behind OIL are not mature, but are getting close, and yes  
those system can be useful.

The barrier that is not understood is still there.

The statement should be:

There is an alternative to OWL, topics maps being one example of an  
alternative, that is not explored because of the fixation by people  
who somehow have been nominated as the authority.

We all lose because of the non-exploration of topic maps, and of  
other and even better alternatives such as n-ary patterns.

The paradigm shift is held back because of the over investment in  
something that objectively should not work to the extend that we need  
for collective knowledge sharing.

Perhaps you will agree..?




On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Danny Ayers wrote:

> On 16/03/2008, Paul Prueitt <psp at ontologystream.com> wrote:
>>
>>  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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