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July 22, 2003
For the past few weeks I've been noodling with an article on the Semantic Web. At the moment I'm particularly interested in the scope of its ambitions and whether they've changed over time. If you know about this and would like to talk with me, send me an email: self@evident.com. Thanks. Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 22, 2003 08:57 AM
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Hello!
Could you send me the article?
a hug from Brazil,
Su
my email is ssguti@terra.com.br
Posted by: Suzana | July 22, 2003 11:50 PM
I'd appreciate a copy as well. I'm having real trouble figuring out why anyone would spend time trying top down, command style tool for the web that requires people to know, deploy, and remember to use hosts of ontologies. Google doesn't know a thing about astrophysics or the painting of Van Gogh, but it still finds us the right answers most of the time.
To quote you, I think, "it is the Web's Theory of Authenticity with its corollary that Imperfection Is a Virtue. In macro you get the Messy Network Axiom with its corollary that Efficiency is the Enemy of Truth"
I have this nagging feeling that annotation, collaboration and reputation are much more important for where we are going than building ever more accurate definitions.
As someone said of learning objects, if you define them too loosely they can't be linked, if you define them too tightly, they can't be reused. That's how I feel about the semantic web, it should be an emergent property, not a set of definitions.
Or maybe I just don't get it. Oh, this is where I came in.
Posted by: Earl Mardle | July 24, 2003 08:18 AM