Re: [xtm-wg] Re: The Future of TopicMaps.Org

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

scott.tsao@boeing.com wrote:
> 
> --- In xtm-wg@y..., Murray Altheim <altheim@e...> wrote:
> > The members of TopicMaps.Org are quite aware of the W3C Semantic Web
> > activity and are endeavouring to coordinate with various activities
> > as they arise, but have preferred to operate more independently than
> > would be allowed under a director and the process of the W3C [...]
> 
> As a potential implementor of future Semantic Web related
> specifications from the W3C, what could I expect to benefit from this
> coordination effort between the W3C and XTM?  Have any deliverables
> been defined from this effort?

Before I attempt to answer such a loaded question, might anyone actually
*define* the "Semantic Web", and I don't mean some rather vague notion
of adding "knowledge on the web." What real problem(s) are you actually
trying to solve? What possible software do you plan to implement, or 
could even conceive of implementing?  I don't know how anyone could 
define a set of deliverables very well given the rather ambiguous or 
nonexistent requirements. All I've seen so far are vague notions of
metadata and ontologies, technologies that already exist.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
XML Technology Center
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      Rustle in the autumn wind
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