RE: XML Schema vs DAML/RDF/RDFS

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Graham
> Klyne Sent: 18 April 2002 14:25
> To: R.V.Guha
> Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: XML Schema vs DAML/RDF/RDFS
> 
> 
> This is a topic which seems to be popping up in number of 
> areas recently.
> 
> Part of the problem, I think, is that an single application 
> gets relatively 
> little benefit from using RDF -- the real benefits come when
> multiple  applications can exchange information without having to
> go through  transformation steps, which I think is the big appeal
> of RDF. 
>   (e.g. [1] 
> contains some notes for a talk I gave to our development team 
> a year or so 
> ago.)

That's an interesting take. But is there evidence that network
effects apply to RDF, or is it informed speculation?

Bill de hÓra

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