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

["Bernard Vatant" <universimmedia@wanadoo.fr>]

*Grunt* yourself !!!!

I agree in the great lines on your analysis of the present situation, and am
scared as well of any capitalization of common nouns - which is the basis of
ideology and hence the beginning of trouble - and would prefer to ask to
everyone using the term: "What do you mean by *a* semantic web?". OTOH
people don't know what it is, but looking for it, they find all sorts of
nice ways and smart tools. It's like "human rights" or "democracy" or
"sustainable development", what I call fertile utopias. "Bag" is not a
flattery name for that kind of things ... maybe "attractor" would be a more
fair one ...

Anyway, if I had to answer the question ... [herr ... cough]

"A semantic web is a web in which basic resources are not documents, but
(reified) statements about (reified) subjects."

Bernard


[BV]
> > Did you read this article and does not it somehow address your question?
> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html

[Murray]

> Yes, I've read it. I consider that article marketing, not a technical
plan.
> I'm interested in hearing what someone who thinks they want to implement
> "the Semantic Web" actually thinks it will be implentation-wise. Again,
> what real problem is he trying to solve? It's not that there aren't
> technical problems to solve, but "Semantic Web" is currently just a bag
> in which to throw a lot of ideas that have something to do with
> representing human knowledge outside of our heads, something humans have
> been doing since they invented writing systems. Heck, we've been doing
> it since we started communicating with grunts:
>
>   OG:  "Grunt, grunt, grunt!"
>   UG:  "Grunt?"
>   OG:  "Grunt, *grunt* [1]"
>   UG:  "Grunt?"
>   OG:  "Grunt. Grunt, grunt grunt grunt grunt!"
>   UG:  (to himself) "I've got to talk to a lawyer about the IP on this
one."
>
> Murray



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