Re: "In Defense of Ambiguity"

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@uibk.ac.at>
wrote:

> the current SW infrastructure requires us to define the meaning of a
> conceptual element identified by a URI beforehand.


I don't think that is true.   Once the spelling of the URI is defined,
people can add statements to the SW using that URI and as they do so its
meaning gets fleshed out and even changes.  Just like in natural language.
Who can just declare that it should not work that way?    Now certainly some
some systems designs will not allow the meaning to change, for example a
business may define a specific product using a URI and insist that i never
can change; but that is just one application.  The semantic web is bigger
than that.  Or is it?

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Seth Russell
www.speaktomecatalog.com