Re: [xtm-wg] An Approach to the Semantic Web

[Robert Barta <rho@bigpond.net.au>]

Danny Ayers wrote:

> >1. What is the business problem?
> >2. What is the proposed business solution? (senarios and use cases)
> >3. What are the potential technical approaches?
> >4. Which technical solution works best and why?
> >5. How can the proposed technical solution be developed and
> >implemented?
> >6. What are the available standards and tools (if any)?

> Not long ago I posted a similar list on rdf-interest (prompted by a comment
> by Murray Altheim on this list, ber-doiyiing) FYI :
> 
> 1. What are the problems (clearly defined in black & white) that the SW
> system will solve?
...
> The response I got was largely along the lines of "we won't know until we
> get there" together with a bit of "one small step at a time" and some "we
> need to make sure the architecture's right for this to work". 

:-) Yes, for technical people these questions have a PHB (pointy
haired boss) pitch:

   http://www.dilbertzone.com/comics/dilbert/about/html/boss.html

There was a cartoon - long ago - where the PHB asked Dilbert, the
engineer, to compile 'a list of unforseeable events'.

Anyway, I do not think that it is hard to come up with a set of
application scenarios, even business models for TopicMaps/RDF/...

But I assume most of us here are thinking not of "a product which
is supposed to be sold 10000 times to solve the problem P of 
customer C". It is about creating a __market infrastructure __ which 
clearly extends the current text based web.

If you consider the SW not only being about semantic encoding
(topic maps, RDF, ...) and retrieval but also about processing 
(Mirkosoft's .NET, Sun's JXTA, ...) then a 'semantic markup' is more
than to make search engines happy.

> Interestingly no-one saw fit to answer any of the questions directly.

Probably these were the guys who drive the Ferraris in two years ;-)

\rho

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