Re: objects to facts to links to LOD to ???

On 16.12.2008, at 17:27, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> Knud et al,
>
> I think Ravinder has started the process of fixing the current  
> Semantic Web layer cake :-) Which is a very good thing (imho, but  
> not seeking a Layer Cake discussion explosion).

I'd rather say his proposal (objects->facts->links->...) is  
complementary to the current SW layer cake. It shows what is going on  
conceptually, whereas the current SW cake (which I agree probably  
needs to be fixed) is more of a technology stack. An interesting paper  
I read related to this is:

A. Gerber, A. van der Merwe, and A. Barnard. A functional Semantic Web  
architecture. In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web  
Conference (ESWC2008), Tenerife, Spain, pages 273–287. Springer, June  
2008.

> The tricky part is the interchangeable nature of "Discovery" and  
> "Trust" in any such scheme layer-wise. For instance, do "Discovery"  
> and "Trust" occupy Layers 4, 5 or either ? We ultimately want to  
> reason against trusted data sources, but the serendipity quotient of  
> discovery is a key factor re. the dynamic nature of "trusted sources".
>
> Since I am clearly thinking and writing (aloud) at the same time, I  
> would suggest:
>
> Layer 4 - Discovery (with high Serendipity Quotient)
> Layer 5 - Trust (albeit inherently volatile)
>
> Kingsley
>>

I'm not sure discovery and trust belong in this stack at all. Not that  
I don't think they are extremely important, but what I see in  
Ravinder's stack is a description of the nature of data on the SW. Of  
course, what I see might not be what he intended! :) The next layer  
should describe how the data is different from the previous layers. As  
I pointed out in a previous mail, I think this difference could be in  
inferenced data vs. explicit data.

Cheers,
Knud
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