- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:37:43 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4E778BF7.1010709@openlinksw.com>
On 9/19/11 10:18 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Why "inevitable?" > > People make their webpages available b/c the benefit of being "heard" > by a wider audience is worth the cost of admission. Because everyone will soon realize that they can *map* structured data (in a variety of shapes and forms) to a conceptual schema that's syntax and serialization format agnostic i.e., based on logic. It isn't about RDF, specifically. It's all about the ability to access, represent, integrate, index, and query fine grained data objects at InterWeb scale and/or across enterprises. That's an inevitability simply because that's why we actually use computers. Syntax wars are just an unfortunate distraction. Long live URIs, HTTP, and 3-tuples (triples or triads)! "David Wheeler goes: All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection;[1] this is often deliberately mis-quoted with "abstraction layer" substituted for "level of indirection". Kevlin Henney's corollary to this is, "...except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." Links: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection -- 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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