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Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:57:34 +0100
Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, public-lod@w3.org
Message-Id: <878C1C6D-B376-4035-9ED7-37883CA72A52@cyganiak.de>
To: Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de>
On 14 Jun 2011, at 09:45, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> I think special purpose reasoners will play a much bigger role in the
> near future than general purpose reasoners because they perform better with
> big and messy data.

Yes. It's certainly true in the case of the web -- you cannot apply off-the-shelf standard OWL reasoners on web data, because of its messiness. This is quite well-documented in the literature.

> And publishers will start to differenciate between dogs and pictures of dogs as
> soon as it provides them added value. Until that day, we will have to live
> with the situation and try to nudge people in the right direction (which
> includes httprange-14). But mass adoption means messy data in any case.

That's spot-on.

Best,
Richard
Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:58:03 UTC

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