- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:41:45 -0500
- To: mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com> wrote: > <snip> >> I assume we agree that mapping should be at the conceptual level while >> interchange formats remain negotiable. In a sense, the pursuit of a >> normative interchange format is inherently mercurial, but not so re. >> conceptual schema :-) > </snip> > > >From my POV, the principle of Hypermedia Factors[1] is one possible > way to define a conceptual agreement that is not bound to a single > media type or data format. > > [1] http://amundsen.com/hypermedia/hfactor/ Can you explain what you mean by "conceptual agreement" and how hfactor can accomplish that? I didn't understand, from reading the page, how it would help me in problems that I consider to require conceptual agreement, for example communicating among research groups mutant proteins that are hypothesized to be involved in causing disease, and evidence for those hypotheses. -Alan > > mca > http://amundsen.com/blog/ > http://twitter.com@mamund > http://mamund.com/foaf.rdf#me > > > #RESTFest 2010 > http://rest-fest.googlecode.com > > > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 14:04, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> On 11/10/10 1:16 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Kingsley Idehen >> <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> >> Alan / John: maybe we could use this thread to arrive at obvious common >> ground re. data integration and the diminishing need for a syntax level >> lingua franca. >> >> Kingsley includes me presumably because of a response to an earlier >> message, not copied to this list. >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2010Nov/0322.html >> >> Correct. >> >> I think there *is* a need for a lingua franca for intercomputer >> communication. But I support the idea that there should be alternative >> syntaxes (as long as they can be clearly translated to the lingua >> franca). >> >> I assume we agree that mapping should be at the conceptual level while >> interchange formats remain negotiable. In a sense, the pursuit of a >> normative interchange format is inherently mercurial, but not so re. >> conceptual schema :-) >> >> Best, >> Alan >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Kingsley Idehen >> President& CEO >> OpenLink Software >> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >> Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen >> Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Kingsley Idehen >> President & CEO >> OpenLink Software >> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >> Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen >> Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen >> >> >> >> >> > >
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