- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:40:56 +0100
- To: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
[I appear to be able to post to the list, yet can only view it via the archives - is this intentional?] I think Jeff's on the nail raising the question of myths, many are persistent and not easy to refute*. On Steve's response re. ontologies not necessarily being a requirement (noting Jeff's Devil's advocacy), consider the following: [[ To design a website you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. To design a web application you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. To design a web service you need to know about XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-Eventing, WS-Reliability, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Notification, WS-BaseNotification, WS-Topics, WS-Transfer... ]] from http://www.crummy.com/writing/REST-Web-Services/ So which sounds better in terms of outreach: a) To design a Semantic Web application you need to know about HTTP, RDF, SPARQL and URIs. b) To design a Semantic Web application you need to know about HTTP, RDF, SPARQL, XML, Turtle, N3, RDFa, GRDDL, OWL, DLs, MT, Proof, OWL-S/WSMO, WSDL, RIF, DSig, and URIs. Cheers, Danny. *My personal favourite misconception came from Dare Obasanjo. He pointed to the problem of determining that two different dated RSS feed items appeared on the same day - one from RSS 1.0 (W3CDTF, e.g. <dc:date>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00,/dc:date>) and one from RSS 2.0 (RFC 822, e.g. <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2002 15:21:36 GMT</pubDate>). Dare's argument was that if RDF offered no way of doing that, how much use could it be for any more complicated data integration problems? -- http://dannyayers.com
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