Re: Profiling in the News: Was: RE: Taxonomies, URN's etc..

["Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>]

> Mapping is the *process* whereby the URI becomes 
> the identifier.  An SSN is not a URI.  I can 
> use a URI in a namespace for disambiguating 
> names.   No problem.  I can also write the 
> schemas such that names are never ambiguous. 

Agreed.

> I didn't rule out using URIs.  I said I don't 
> need them to build schemas or declare property 
> sets. I need them when I want to use those 
> reliably on the Internet.   Some systems never 
> use the Internet but can use XML.   HumanML 
> can be applied to non-Internet systems.

Agreed.

> We can apply RDF and or XML Schemas or even 
> RELAX NG but we have to assess the buy in 
> given customers who are thralls to tools.

Agreed.

> Today we can go faster and get on more systems 
> using the schemas. The question is technically one 
> of representational power but in project time, 
> one of isolating the domains.  For that reason, 
> I welcome the parallel examples.  For the same 
> reason, I don't like to see HumanML labeled as 
> a Semantic Web project.   Too many contracts 
> and not enough working lawyers. 

Agreed.

> We should be assessing the prototype schemas, 
> not debating URIs, RDF, the Semantic Web or 
> other initiatives.  If we can get the property 
> sets scoped, defined and documented, we have 
> time to work out alternative representations 
> for different processing environments.

Agreed.

Thanks, you made it easy for me :-)

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Sean B. Palmer
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