- From: Carl Mattocks <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:43:16 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Stella Dextre Clarke" <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: "'Miles, AJ \(Alistair\)'" <a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk>, "'Mark van Assem'" <mark@cs.vu.nl>, "'Thomas Baker'" <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>, "'Leonard Will'" <l.will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
Hi stella : I would be interested i viewing drafts of Parts 1, 2 and 4 of BS8723 regards carl <quote who="Stella Dextre Clarke"> > > Just a word of general support for this approach. I agree with the > reservations that have been expressed about the need for a "modelling > commitment" (btw, not exactly sure what that means, but hopefully the > idea is to get the data model right) first, before expressing this in > xml format. > > I interpret Leonard's point as a bit of scepticism about whether this is > useful, before we can see any applications that stand a chance of using > it appropriately. But this is a chicken-and-egg argument - many links > are needed in the chain that conveys information from its source to its > ultimate users, and if no work commenced on any of the links before the > others were in place, we'd never get anywhere. (And by the way, I'm > sceptical about the Semantic Web too!) To achieve progress, sometimes we > have to be able to demonstrate ahead-of-their-time methods just to > stimulate the imaginations of the people who will turn them into real > useful projects. > > Returning to the question of xml formats, while progress on BS8723 > continues to be wretchedly slow (mea culpa - just too busy with the day > job) I hope that eventually it will include recommendations on both the > appropriate data model(s) and on expressing these in xml format. And the > SKOS thinking will hopefully feed into this. If anyone on this list > would like to comment on drafts of Parts 1, 2 and 4 of BS8723 and has > not already seen them, please let me know. > > Stella > > ***************************************************** > Stella Dextre Clarke > Information Consultant > Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8RR, UK > Tel: 01235-833-298 > Fax: 01235-863-298 > SDClarke@LukeHouse.demon.co.uk > ***************************************************** > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Miles, AJ > (Alistair) > Sent: 25 February 2005 18:23 > To: Mark van Assem; Thomas Baker > Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org > Subject: RE: Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web > > > > Hi all, > > Tom wrote: >> > However, I think we should avoid giving the impression >> > that this is anything similar to or as automatic as a file-format >> > conversion. Lots of people think of XML and >> > RDF not as different models, but as different file formats, > so I > >> can easily picture someone thinking they could select > "File -> Save > >> As: SKOS". >> > > Anyone fancy drafting a nice easy paragraph that explains this to go in > the Quick Guide ? :) I'm thinking we need to be able to express the > basic modelling commitments that have to be made to support a stable, > persistent and useful SKOS/RDF publication of a concept scheme. > > Cheers, > > Al. > > > > > --- > Alistair Miles > Research Associate > CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory > Building R1 Room 1.60 > Fermi Avenue > Chilton > Didcot > Oxfordshire OX11 0QX > United Kingdom > Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk > Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark van Assem [mailto:mark@cs.vu.nl] >> Sent: 25 February 2005 16:06 >> To: Thomas Baker >> Cc: Miles, AJ (Alistair); public-esw-thes@w3.org >> Subject: Re: Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web >> >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Mark. >> >> -- >> Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam >> mark@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark >> >> > > > -- Carl Mattocks co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC CEO CHECKMi v/f (usa) 908 322 8715 www.CHECKMi.com Semantically Smart Compendiums [AOL] IM CarlCHECKMi
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