- From: Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:02 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Dec 14, 2005, at 15:51, Henry Story wrote: > It won't emerge by speaking about it. > It won't emerge first by adding annotations or any distributed > metadata scheme as that requires a lot of people to agree on many > things first. > The best way to start it, is to open up a database of valuable data > to a SPARQL end point with a good ontology. Absolutely. I am somewhat new to SW, but looks like there are enough standards to start somehow with the plumbing. Taking this pragmatic approach which I share: are you thinking on publishing ontologies (that is schema + instances) as such for others to use? Or are you thinking in RDF-but-private backends accessible with some kind of front-end? In my view the former seems sctrictly closer to the semantic web itself but needs third-party applications to leverage the data, the latter uses semantic web related technologies but if everything is server-side depending on the data a relational database may be enough, that is, the technology itself may not be differential, or in any case being server-side might be not be considered proper semantic web. -- fxn
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