- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:46 +0100
Giovanni Gentili wrote: > James Graham: >> The issue when trying to abstract problems is that you can end up doing >> "architecture astronautics"; you concentrate on making generic ways to build >> solutions to weakly constrained problems without any attention to the >> details of those problems that make them unique. > > I think the right level, like in my proposal, > is greatly under "astronautics" > but no so low as "single vocabularies". > I rather disagree. How we interact with information depends fundamentally on the type of information. If the information is a set of geographical coordinates, for example, the set of useful interactions are rather different to those for a bibliographic entry. Trying to pretend that the two problems are just interchangeable instances of the same "semantically structured information" problem is likely to hide the important distinctions between the two problem domains.
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