I agree, Kingsley. Problems with SKOS (Lists) and RDF (Lists) are implementation problems, not processing problems. It is very difficult to prevent people from perceiving a <first>, <rest>, <nil> sequence as a Monte Carlo integration of probability. From a young age we see that, if it is summer, winter is half a year forward or back and vice-versa. What good is SKOS or RDF if the graphs do not show/(provide a visualization of) that seasonal straight line depreciation accounting ?
Dilemma Answer: make up a virtuous bookkeeper's scale and divide it by 4 (always possible) and call it a Quarterly Conference Calls and the last one an Annual Report. Profits ? Sorry, "absolutely" no telling when gravity=(1/1)=(2pi/2pi)=(360 Degrees/360 Degrees)=(Thing/sameAs), etc.). A bookkeeper is always virtuous, maybe because they are exactly congruent to virtue and maybe because they fear what a psychopathic authority might do to them if they fail to tell them the truth scaled to what they want to hear. That is not a probability either, it protects accomplices and keeps you and your friends safe. <foaf:Person> does not always make that my team-other team relation "all present and accounted for". http://www.rustprivacy.org/2014/balance/eCommerceVision.jpg http://www.rustprivacy.org/2014/balance/CulturalHeritageVision.jpg Superstitious, bigoted Scientists are virtuous bookkeepers who often have to decide if icebergs float because they are Witches or float because they are Queer. You can't resolve that culture war by calling Alan Turing dirty names, and Implementers simply can not assume that an audience who knows what recursion is also knows what recursion does. That is a semantic mistake. --Gannon -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 3/30/14, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: Semantic Web culture vs Startup culture To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, March 30, 2014, 1:00 PM On 3/29/14 1:41 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: > Started a sort of Semantic Web vs Startup culture war on Hacker News: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491925 > > Maybe you all can help me with some of the comments ;-) > > My comments, posted to the list: RDF is unpopular because it is generally misunderstood. This problem arises (primarily) from how RDF has been presented to the market in general. To understand RDF you have first understand what Data actually is [1], once you cross that hurdle two things [2[3] ]will become obvious: 1. RDF is extremely useful in regards to all issues relating to Data 2. RDF has been poorly promoted. Links: [1] http://slidesha.re/1epEyZ1 -- Understanding Data [2] http://bit.ly/1fluti1 -- What is RDF, Really? [3] http://bit.ly/1cqm7Hs -- RDF Relation (RDF should really stand for: Relations Description Framework) . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
