- From: Nicolas Chauvat <nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:54:33 +0200
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, martin@weborganics.co.uk, Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>, frans.knibbe@geodan.nl, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 02:09:48PM -0700, Dan Brickley wrote: > May I gently suggest that the name isn't the core problem here? In my opinion, the core problem the Web is trying to solve is "How could we share the things we have in our computers in a way that is interoperable and as simple as it could be ?". URLs being names for the things we share on the Web, I would argue that names are at the core of the Web and that the great advance of the Web was to embody the idea of hypertext by building on the already working Domain Name System (names again). RDF is a special case among the languages that are used to share data over the Web because its uses web-enabled names (URLs) to encode the data. It is like sending a text to someone after annotating each and every single word with its entry in a specific edition of a dictionnary. Say good bye to polysemy and hello to immediate lookup of definitions. That core problem stated, I can't help thinking with https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34670 that naming is very important in any thought process, because as he framed it "naming things badly adds to the misfortune of the world". And what we are doing on this list if not thinking about and designing the tools to solve the above problem ? If we can agree on the right names for the different parts of the Semantic Web we have been designing, I believe we are making progress. -- Nicolas Chauvat logilab.fr - services en informatique scientifique et gestion de connaissances
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