Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data

Why don't we just reorganize RDF to look like the predicate calculus,  let
the arity > 2,  and then say it is something new so we can escape the RDF
name.

In fact,  let's just call it "ISO Common Logic",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logic

Most of the "cool kids" weren't around in the 1980s so they don't have the
bad taste in their mouth left by the predicate calculus.

I don't see any problem with extending SPARQL to arity > 2 facts,  we can
let OWL dry and blow away.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote:

> +1, nicely put Kingsley
> --Gannon
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 9/19/14, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data
>  To: public-lod@w3.org
>  Date: Friday, September 19, 2014, 5:48 PM
>
>
>      On 9/19/14 4:38 PM,
>  Brent Shambaugh
>        wrote:
>
>
>
>        Manu Sporny's post titled "Building
>  Linked Data into the Core
>          of the Web"
>
>          [
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Sep/0063.html]
>          led to the question:
>
>
>        is linked data and semantic web tech useful? I
>  think so. I
>          can only speak from my own perspective and
>  experience.
>
>
>
>      Brent,
>
>
>
>      Pasting my reply to Manu (with some editing) here, as I
>  think its
>      important:
>
>
>
>      Manu,
>
>
>
>
>      It is misleading (albeit inadvertent in regards to your
>  post above)
>      to infer that Linked Data isn't already the core of
>  the Web. The
>      absolute fact of the matter is that Linked Data has been
>  the core of
>      the Web since it was an idea [1][2].
>
>
>
>
>      The Web doesn't work at all if HTTP URIs aren't
>  names for:
>
>
>
>
>      [1] What exists on the Web
>
>
>      [2] What exists, period.
>
>
>
>
>      We just have the misfortune of poor communications
>  mucking up proper
>      comprehension of AWWW. For example, RDF should have been
>  presented
>      to the world as an effort by the W3C to standardize an
>  existing
>      aspect of the Web i.e., the ability to leverage HTTP
>  URIs as
>      mechanisms for:
>
>
>
>
>      1. entity identification & naming
>
>
>      2. entity description using sentences or statements --
>  where (as is
>      the case re., natural language) a sentence or statement
>  is comprised
>      of a subject, predicate, and object.
>
>
>
>
>      Instead, we ended up with an incomprehensible,
>  indefensible, and at
>      best draconian narrative that has forever tainted the
>  letters
>      "R-D-F" .  And to compount matters,
>  "HttpRange-14" has become
>      censorship tool (based on its ridiculous history), that
>  blurs fixing
>      this horrible state of affairs.
>
>
>
>
>      Links:
>
>
>
>
>      [1] http://bit.ly/10Y9FL1
>      -- Evidence that Linked Data was always at the core of
>  the Web
>      (excuse some instability on my personal data space
>  instance, at this
>      point in time, should you encounter issues looking up
>  the document
>      identified by this HTTP URI)
>
>
>
>
>      [2]
> http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/03/world-wide-web-25-years-later.html
>      -- World Wide Web, 25 years later
>
>
>
>
>      [3]
> http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/b4/79/04b4794ccf2b6fd14ed3c822be26382f.jpg
>      -- Illustrating identification (naming) on the Web (re.,
>  things that
>      exist on or off the Web medium) .
>
>
>
>
>      --
>
>
>
>      --
>  Regards,
>
>  Kingsley Idehen
>  Founder & CEO
>  OpenLink Software
>  Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>  Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
>  Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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>
>
>
>


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