On Oct 15, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 10:34 -0700, Daniela Florescu wrote:
Both RDF and JSON suffer from the fact that there is no general and
standard way to describe metadata in a contract
-- and that's why they'll probably NOT be used in places where a
contract between the communicating parties is needed:
e.g. financials, healthcare, military.
healthcare and life sciences are using RDF; OWL and RIF are the
mechanisms here I think.
Maybe internally (internally, I bet every company uses probably all
the models
in the book...)
But when they communicate between companies (hospitals, insurances,
etc), I doubt that they do it RDF. Not in my experience at least.
XML is still the way to go -- you need a (complete) standard,
otherwise you get a law suit
if something gets wrong.
But it's probably a matter of time, until JSON&co get their act
together and start
standardizing stuff too.
The question is what will they standardize, and how ?
Best
Dana
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