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

["Peter Jones" <ppj1100@connectfree.co.uk>]

I think you might find that the semantic web crowd are further ahead than
you think.
See for instance
http://www.fipa.org/
and
http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/
This latter looks particularly impressive imho, having played with it
briefly.

Think of an idea, any idea, and there are the tools.
Think of the application, that creates the logic. Build the agents to do it,
and away you go.
TBL has already hinted at one application in that article - the appointment
booker - helpful man, eh?

Btw, judging from some of the FIPA specs I scanned I don't think these folks
really care about what form the ontology comes in, as long as they can
process it to a form that agents can communicate about.

Enjoy.

Peter


----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
To: <xtm-wg@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: [xtm-wg] Re: The Future of TopicMaps.Org


>
> <- -----Original Message-----
> <- From: Bernard Vatant [mailto:universimmedia@wanadoo.fr]
> <- Sent: 01 May 2001 20:01
> <- To: xtm-wg@yahoogroups.com
> <- Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Re: The Future of TopicMaps.Org
> <-
> <-
> <-  [Murray]
> <-
> <- > 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.
> <-
> <- Did you read this article and does not it somehow address your
question?
> <-
> <- http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
> <-
> <- B.
>
> Are you referring to the "off-the-shelf software for writing Semantic Web
> pages" or "software agents roaming from page to page" or even "Adding
logic
> to the Web..."?
> I think it prompts the question rather than addresses it...
>
>
>
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