At 1:10 AM -0400 6/10/08, Justin James wrote: > > Interesting, but nothing at all to do with the SWeb project/goals. You are >still talking > about human/human communication here. The SWeb goal is to >perform work without human >> intervention or communication being necessary. Perhaps 'inference web' >would have been a > better term, but we are stuck with 'semantic web' now. > >This is how I have always view "Semantic Web". A non-special needs user of a >standard Web browser doesn't need HTML to figure out when red, bold text >means "important" and when it means "this field on this form is required." >That Web browser application *does* need semantic tags to act differently on >red, bold text that should be "important" text as opposed to indicated a >required form field; so does a search engine, and so do a lot of other >"interesting" applications. Um... well, that might be one use of SWeb ideas. But that's not what the SWeb is primarily *about*, and that is a very narrow sense of 'semantic'. Most of the SWeb is concerned with stuff that, ideally, humans will never see and that itself has a semantics which has nothing at all to do with documents or colors of fonts. Just wanting to keep the terminology straight, not wanting to start an argument :-) Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.flickr.com/pathayes/collections
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