> > > > I'm surprised by the answers saying "we know how to do that". Yes, we know > how to do that; we often reuse and we can employ reasoning when we don't. >
Exactly!! So if we don't reuse (which is not mandatory), then let's just employ reasoning. > > Out there, though, in the real world they seem a good year or two away > from realising that we were right. > Right about what? reusing? Didn't you just say that if you don't reuse, we can employ reasoning? So what is the problem? I see it as a business opportunity. Problem: I'm a webmaster and I want to integrate with facebook, twitter, search engines. That means that I have to add all these tags and duplicate my data to keep all of these services happy. I don't want to do that. But I do want to have integration with these services. What can I do? Solution: Service FooBar will automatically do the "duplication" for you. Choose your favorite vocabulary, just tag your data once, and we will do the rest. Service FooBar does the reasoning. > > > Barry > > > > On 21/06/2012 10:22, Denny Vrandecic wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2012, at 09:38, Juan Sequeda wrote: > > This vocabulary competition is a good thing! > > Yep, competing standards have always proven to be a good thing, just think > of the internet protocols before the Web, Hypertext standards before HTML, > imperial units of measurements vs SI, RSS vs RSS, microdata vs RDFa, VHS vs > Betamax, Blueray vs DVD HD, … all for diversity! :) > > > > > > >
