Re: &

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

> > I try to mention DAML+OIL/Semantic Web/RDF as much
> > as I can, although Manos has to take credit for this particular
> > thread about it.
>
> Yeah but I suppose you where the list's Semantic Guide from
> the start.

I was the original guide... you're fast overtaking me. I approach things
from a "hey, what can HumanML do for the Semantic Web?" point of view, and
you approach it from the "hey, what can the Semantic Web do for HumanML?"
point of view. I make no secret of the fact that I have that hidden agenda
(well, not so hidden if I don't make any secret of it!). But note that no
one's paaying me to develop the Semantic Web, and I don't get any personal
gain from it. I'm not even a W3C member at this time. I'm just doing it
because I think it'll benefit everyone.

> [...] Sean's recent "huml:idiomaticallyEquivalentTo" was a
> silent example.

Very well spotted.

huml:idiomaticallyEquivalentTo aaron:kindaLike daml:equivalentTo .

It's not a sub property of it, though. If it were a sub property, it would
be true that everything that is idiomatically equivalent to something else
were also totally (logically) equivalent to it. Idiomatic equivalence is a
weak form of equivalence, not a specialization of a strong form of it.

> You could also say that It's the extended OOP behind DAML
> that helps you apply inheritance/relationships model that break
> out of hierarchical boundaries.

That's what puts the "Web" in the "Semantic Web"!

[...]
> > "Syntax matrix": ah, that's a new synonym we can use!
>
> They have become marketing tools. Web Service, for example...

That's a good point.

> [...] all we need after parsing to get the real model is the resources
> as triples. QName resolution serves only before parsing occurs.
> XSLT/XPath on the other hand, do not work on the model, they
> work on the syntax implemented to describe the model. That is the
> reason they are dependent on namespaces from start to end of the
> proccess.

Very well put indeed.

--
Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
@prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> .
:Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .