- From: carmen <_@whats-your.name>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:05:29 -0400
- To: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>
> > If the Semantic Web had addressed these three issues from the > > beginning, > > it would have been integrated into the mainstream of data processing > > in > > about 3 or 4 years. Today, we would have seen some truly spectacular > > applications. > > Baloney. What evidence exists that the problem is technology, as > opposed to cost, requirements, and politics (of putting data online)? > Integrating/rationalizing heterogeneous data is hard work, and always > has been (even when the data being integrated was *entirely* in > relational databases). > > > The SemWeb still has a chance, but it has to be integrated with the > > mainstream of data processing before it can become the mainstream." > > Certainly true. Let me offer a couple more truisms: > > The Semantic Web still has a chance given the number of dedicated and > smart people working on it. and on the other side of the coin, we have Twitter, removing <a> from the party http://bit.ly/sMsfI3fd ought ot be enough for anyone > > The S*m*ntic W*b has *no* chance as long as those who believe in it > don't develop their own specs and software that demonstrate all the > purported advantage of doing it that way (whatever it is). > > --Frank >
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