- From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:45:36 -0500
- To: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>, "public-hydra@w3.org" <public-hydra@w3.org>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAChbWaP4V0+wZ9t+pDt=b_BtN0F4HstO4ewzzsL0T21FOaCHiA@mail.gmail.com>
It's too bad Niklas' opinions are in the minority...he could have his OWN Schema.org with thoughts like that. :) On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote: > My 2 cents: > > When schema.org was new, I mentioned to Dan B. that conflicting > viewpoints between the sponsors might be a problem. He agreed that I > confused him entirely (I get that a lot). From a business perspective, a > Library is a rooftop of a building which collects fines for over due books. > From a semantic perspective a Library is a storehouse of Knowledge (in > book title Collections) some of which may never be used. > > The difference is that a shopkeeping business must be able to make change > when they open for business in the morning. The contents of the cash > drawer at noon are a computed zero. With this in mind, > 1) the absolute "Right" of an Advertiser to do business 24 x 7, Equals > 2) the absolute "Right" of an eCommerce to do business 24 x 7, Equals > 3) the absolute "Right" of a Merchant to keep change overnight, and > compute the morning's (ante meridian) profits at noon if they wish to know > the number. > > Reporting bogus profit numbers in the Annual Report is absolutely not > right in all three cases. > > The speed of the advertising business is constant with respect to the > frequency of reporting. > The speed of the eCommerce business is constant with respect to the > frequency of reporting. > The speed of shopkeeping is constant with respect to the frequency of > reporting. > The speed of light is constant, but Physicists don't talk about that as > having been just discovered this morning when the shop doors opened. > Instead they note that a Nurse has an absolute "Right" to wake you up to > take a pill but only while you are in Hospital. An Advertiser or an > eCommerce Merchant has no right to play Nurse or play alarm clock. > > An Ontology (and the Gold Standard for Linked Data) is a balanced > (average) view of the profits reported in the Annual Report and numerically > about 13% below the Advertiser or eCommerce Merchant perspective and 25% > above the Shopkeeper perspective. The numbers come from the the tangent > half-angle substitution across the computed zero ((Time=Now)=petite cash). > When you query the Web you query 100% of an average of that which does not > mean 50% of the products sold or 50% of the products advertised. > > http://www.rustprivacy.org/2014/balance/LinkedOpenData.jpg > > You just have to be careful about the logic labels: Advertising is > useful. Data Products are useful. Spam is infinitely useless. Your > friends are useful therefore they are not Spam and not (only) Data Products. > > --Gannon > > 3:24 AM, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com> > wrote: > <snip/> > > Alternative suggestion from the spectator seat: > > In real-world situations with organizations coming > from a different perspective, theory often clashes with > practicality. The "lesser of two evils" dictum > would be to first make sure that something gets published, > even if it is semantically fuzzy. But, that's a > perma-thread for a different day :) > > Cheers,Niklas > > <snip /> > > > -- -Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/>
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