- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:31:44 -0600
- To: Phil Dawes <pdawes@users.sf.net>
- Cc: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 02:04, Phil Dawes wrote: > Hi Uche, > > Uche Ogbuji writes: > > > > > > Using an IFP - e.g. foaf:mbox. > > > > Hmm. My problem is that in the real, muddy world, I think > > machine-automated merging is going to run into many more ontological > > problems than you can throw a few OWL gimmicks at. > > > > Just ditch the idea: it's not in the least bit practical. *People* will > > always be needed to sort out context, Semantic Web or no. I think that > > once one accepts that, all these semiotic contrivances become easily > > seen for the nonsense they are. > > > > Actually I've been finding it very practical (at least working in an > intranet environment). Of course you're right - people do need to sort > out context, but they also need to be able to do this on a large scale. "intranet environment" is a closed system. For some reason you snipped the part where I said that it *is* perfectly practical in closed systems where the symbols can be controlled by management and policy. "intranet environment" is not "the real, muddy world", which is where I said machine merging magic is impractical (because there is no centrally controlled grounding of symbols). -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com A hands-on introduction to ISO Schematron - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-xschematron-i.html Wrestling HTML (using Python) - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/08/pyxml.html XML circles the globe - http://www.javareport.com/article.asp?id=9797 Principles of XML design: Considering container elements - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-contain.html Hacking XML Hacks - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think26.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/
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