What if the technology world took the approach to have a three year moratorium on such things as the Semantic Web? What if they could attract the same resouces and put those resources to put in place wider - much wider - application of that which is already invented? affordable? under-used?
Don't we need more soft power humans? More cyber-cafe's? More models that show concrete, tangible results? Particularly ones which were scaleable?
John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs
At 7:20 PM +0545 10/15/04, Layton Montgomery wrote:
Reading through these exchanges and through the Technology Review article was my first attempt to understand what the Semantic Web really is. Personally, I can see clear value in this, both from the view of refining searches to a much higher degree than is currently possible; and from the view of being able to synthesize disparate data across web pages and computer applications. For instance, I might want to do identify conferences being held in 2005 in Nepal having something to do with the Internet. Presumably, a Semantic Web search engine would allow you to not only identify keywords or phrases, but also what type of data they are. So I would search for something like: "date" = "2005", "country" = "Nepal", "event" = "conference", and "theme" = "Internet". Of course there would need to be a lot of fuzzy programming behind that so that the search engine would identify reasonable variations of my search terms, but search engines today already do this, so I would not see any problem in this way. Web site authoring tools would be able to create or identify the existing files which contain the types of data in the web page; for many forms of data, they might do so automatically.
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