On 12 November 2015 at 12:45, Nicolas Chauvat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:27:10PM -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > > To me, The Semantic Web is like Google, but then run on my machine. > > > > To me its just a Web of Data [...] > > Ruben says "The Semantic Web" and Kingsley answers "just a Web of Data". > > In my tutorial "introduction to the semantic web" last week at > SemWeb.Pro, I presented the Semantic Web and the Web of Data as the > same thing. > > Then Fabien Gandon from Inria summarized the first session of the MOOC > "Le Web Sémantique" and distinguished two items in a couple > (web of data ; semantic web). > > It made me think that splitting the thing in two after the fact might > have benefits: > > - Web of Data = what works today = 1st deliverable of the SemWeb Project > This is an interesting take. I really like the way Dan C framed things years ago: "The important word in Semantic Web is 'Web'" IMHO, the "web of data" is a side effect of the "semantic web" project, which is a side effect of the "web" project. ie to allow anything to be connected to anything, with a boostrap via the web of documents. Is the web of data the first deliverable of the SemWeb project, I think you could view it that way. One other important aspect from "Weaving the Web". And that is that the web is "more a social invention than a technical one". Opinions may vary, but I dont think the web of data as it is today, *on it's own*, qualifies enough as social to be really a first class deliverable. However if you combine the web of data, with thinks like Solid, I think we are there. Now it's time to start using it, and gaining market share. > > - Semantic Web = what will work = prov, trust, inference, smartclient, etc. > These strike me as more tactical, and will become increasingly useful tools over time. > > It allows us to say that The Semantic Web Project *has*delivered* its > version 1, nicknamed "Web of Data", and that more versions will follow. > > [Hopefully in a couple years the "Web of Data" will have completely > merged with the One True Web and nobody will care about making a > distinction any more] > > That way of putting things fits well with the iterative/agile/lean > culture of project management that is now spreading all over. > > Do you know of people that have been trying to sell things this way? > I like the sense of this argument, in that it's a continuum, with milestone achieved on the way. I suppose different people will focus on different markers. But that's as it should be, more important is that what's delivered is designed to interoperate. > > -- > Nicolas Chauvat > > logilab.fr - services en informatique scientifique et gestion de > connaissances > >
