Point well made.
I was, however, referring to public statements made by Chris Welty at a recorded conference panel. I don't have the link at my fingertips though. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Holger Knublauch Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [topbraid-users] Re: constraint modelling On 9/26/2012 6:51, Irene Polikoff wrote: Since I have not been involved with RIF development it would be inappropriate for me to go as far as to say that RIF is not successful or dead on arrival. There have been, however, public statements made pretty much along these lines by the RIF working group leader and other folks at W3C. My personal opinion: In general you will find very few public statements *against* those W3C standards. There has been and still is a lot of background grumbling about standards like OWL 2 and RIF. But in the end, any small group of dedicated individuals is able to publish W3C standards, if they are just committed enough. What matters is whether there is a broad adoption in the real world beyond lip services. Yes many tool vendors claim support for OWL 2 and RIF. But do we see a wide adoption of the new OWL 2 restriction types and system properties, or RIF models all over the place? No. Note that this greatly contradicts the amount of academic papers etc that all argue about the theoretical benefits of those technologies. The existence of those "scientific" papers discourage people from openly opposing these new standards. For anyone who has been in CS academia long enough (like myself) it is clear to see that you can get papers accepted about almost anything. But people vote with their feet. Holger -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. 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/topbraid-users?hl=en -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. 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/topbraid-users?hl=en
