XML Schema vs DAML/RDF/RDFS

I was talking yesterday to a friend whose is working with
some geologists who want to share data. They are of
course planning on using xml and are in the process
of writing up their xml schemas.

They have applications that do all kinds of sophisticated analysis
on this data. They have no need of doing the kinds of inferences
that rdfs/daml enables. Their apps do computations that are far
more complex and it would be easy for them to modify their
apps to make it do the few (if any) inferential facilities rdfs/daml
offers, if the need arises.

I tried to make a case for  rdf/rdfs/daml, but given the
substantially more tools available for xml/xml schema and their
lack of interest in simple inferences, I couldn't in good faith push
too hard for rdf/rdfs/daml.

So, should they be using rdfs/daml? Why?

guha

Received on Wednesday, 17 April 2002 16:24:29 UTC