- From: Richard Newman <rnewman@twinql.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:01:52 -0800
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: SW-forum list <semantic-web@w3.org>, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
>> If somebody is striving for semantic web, he must have a good >> learning about >> the nature of meaning >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_%28linguistic%29 ) and the >> modes of >> signification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign)determined by >> the kinds of >> things signified and the kinds of things which signify (signs, >> symbols, >> codes, terms, words). > > There I disagree strongly, in the first place probably because I use a > different definition of "semantic web". Put another way: Azamat is holding the hammer of semiotics, and everything looks like a nail. Aside from any objection to semiotics, there is a spectrum of completeness in modeling; very few applications need a "perfect" data model to get useful work done. In fact, since we are still using limited computers with disks and processors, and an answer now is better than an answer at some future time, a tradeoff between correctness and complexity is absolutely necessary. Danny gets that; I get that; the SKOS folks evidently get that. Apparently Azamat does not. -R
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