Re: How will the semantic web emerge

I wrote the following a few months ago:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bblfish?entry=know_your_end_user

On 14 Dec 2005, at 16:13, Xavier Noria wrote:

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> On Dec 14, 2005, at 15:51, Henry Story wrote:
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>> It won't emerge by speaking about it.
>> It won't emerge first by adding annotations or any distributed  
>> metadata scheme as that requires a lot of people to agree on many  
>> things first.
>> The best way to start it, is to open up a database of valuable  
>> data to a SPARQL end point with a good ontology.
>
> Absolutely. I am somewhat new to SW, but looks like there are  
> enough standards to start somehow with the plumbing.
>
> Taking this pragmatic approach which I share: are you thinking on  
> publishing ontologies (that is schema + instances) as such for  
> others to use? Or are you thinking in RDF-but-private backends  
> accessible with some kind of front-end? In my view the former seems  
> sctrictly closer to the semantic web itself but needs third-party  
> applications to leverage the data, the latter uses semantic web  
> related technologies but if everything is server-side depending on  
> the data a relational database may be enough, that is, the  
> technology itself may not be differential, or in any case being  
> server-side might be not be considered proper semantic web.
>
> -- fxn
>

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:48:52 UTC