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

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

At 8:27 PM +0100 8/29/01, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>  > 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 :-)


Len's good at that. Lets me say: "What he said." ;)
Ciao,
Rex

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