RE: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery

> -----Original Message-----
> From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Denny Vrandecic
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:43 AM
> To: John Pybus
> Cc: Benjamin Nowack; semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: Re: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery
> 
> 
> > What any human agent would do with an unknown term on the web: ask
> > google (or some other SW specific search engine)?  ;-)
> 
> Sounds good. A Semantic Web Web Service that just gathers all the
> rdfs:seeAlso and rdfs:isDefinedBy triples out there and returns you an
> URI when asking for an URI (maybe even with some specials like Source,
> and time, format of the answer URI if it is an URL, and such).
> 

That's more-or-less the thought behind:

	http://www.semanticwebsearch.com

Though the site has a human interface also, it's largely designed to help
agents find things.

Here's another approach to solving the same problem but which tries to
leverage existing search infrastructure:

	http://labs.intellidimension.com/rdfgoo

-Geoff