Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

On 14 Jun 2011, at 09:45, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> I think special purpose reasoners will play a much bigger role in the
> near future than general purpose reasoners because they perform better with
> big and messy data.

Yes. It's certainly true in the case of the web -- you cannot apply off-the-shelf standard OWL reasoners on web data, because of its messiness. This is quite well-documented in the literature.

> And publishers will start to differenciate between dogs and pictures of dogs as
> soon as it provides them added value. Until that day, we will have to live
> with the situation and try to nudge people in the right direction (which
> includes httprange-14). But mass adoption means messy data in any case.

That's spot-on.

Best,
Richard

Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:58:03 UTC