- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:32:04 -0700
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Giles Hogben" <giles.hogben@jrc.it>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> But there are problems. In the Evaluation And Report Language [1], > we're basically quite stumped as to what things are being evaluated. > For example, we might have the following Webpage that talks about a This is an awesome explanation of why we care about how people choose to use http: identifiers. The semantic web is about interoperable metadata. If the metadata can't flow, aggregate, and interoperate, it's *not* going to be a semantic web. Interoperability means that if I aggregate 500 different assertions from different sources, all about http://www.microsoft.com, I know that they all are talking about the same "thing". If I can't even guarantee that much, then all of this semantic web talk is a waste of time. I hope people can see from Sean's example why this is such a fundamental thing to get out of the way.
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