I would say the main problem of current web semantics is the following: *Hyperlinks are not qualified (enough)!*
If hyperlinks were qualified and the relation could be voted on, further qualified or simply flagged as inappropriate, wrong, falsified (by giving a reason)... al of which could as well be voted on in order to keep down attempts of libel and slander... well that would be good. To me that's really something that happens in the browser. Whenever I click on a link, it would really help if I could give feedback as to the quality of the link and the actual semantic relation between source and target. The thing is, that this semantic relation in fact is completely independent from source and target. What I mean is this... source: news article target: product page for a book at amazon Now, the semantic relation might actually look somewhat like this: source-object: "Albert Einstein [scientist]" relation: "visited [1906]" target-object: "Cologne [City, Germany] ...whereas I would not only want to be able relate entire documents but in fact only highlighted sections or even words. Whether or not such semantic relations with respect to one entity hyperlinking to another are actually meaningful with respect to the semantic objects and their relation (as in the example above) would be up for evaluation by any other user who discovered this semantic relation and found it to be meaningful (or not) for whatever he was actually looking for. This state of affairs of "unqualified linking" also applies to TiddlyWiki. >From my perspective it would be majorly awesome to have qualified WikiLinks or qualified tags. Today, if I had a tiddler... [Proposition A] This is supported by [Evidence X]. ...I would have to read the whole damn thing to figure out that A of type proposition is supported by X of type evidence. If only the relation were qualified as "supported by"... now we could do a lot more with that, couldn't we? The same goes for tags. For example, I could tag something [[done|12.06.2012 by Roger]]... now there's a whole lot more that we could do than just figure out that something has a tag of "done". Of course this could be decoupled and we could introduce a myriad of extended fields... but I would think that the ability to define such semantics would make things so much more readable, let alone condensed to the very degree we actually want it to be. Cheers, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/-/eXNWt6H_rBwJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
