- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:17:20 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Bijan Parsia wrote: > > I've pointed to my SVG argument: > http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2006/09/17/the-svg-argument/ > > I think this helps give some natural boundaries for making sensible > comparisons. > > but I wanted to also point to a little dispute about SPARQL vs. XSLT: > http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2007/03/19/why-not-sparql-for-dblp/ From the latter, "all the translators I saw while googling were from Bibtex, not to Bibtex" is I think pretty key to some of our problems hereabouts. A lot of people write adaptors from so-called "legacy formats" *into* the RDF/OWL environment. But these formats are also a major gateway to real applications, users, businesses and adoption. Somehow "legacy" has become a dirty word in this community, rather than something that connects candidate technogies-of-the-future to the vast body of existing practice. Perhaps every RDF/OWL convertor tool should have a reverter alongside it? cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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