Re: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery

Benjamin Nowack wrote:
> On 24.03.2005 09:24:58, Denny Vrandecic wrote:
> 
>>Benjamin Nowack wrote:
>>
>>>On 22.03.2005 18:18:22, Stephen Rhoads wrote:
>>>
>>>>So, with that settled, let’s restate the problem:
>>>>
>>>>At present, there is no formal, generalized mechanism whereby a Web
>>>>Agent, upon discovery of a URI, and lacking knowledge about that URI,
>>>>can query the Originator of the URI in order to obtain an RDF
>>>>description of the URI.
>>>
>>>True, unfortunately. I was hoping the SWBPD WG (or DAWG) would address
>>>this issue but I'm not sure if they're going to.
>>
>>I think the problem is actually solved: there's rdfs:seeAlso and 
>>rdfs:isDefinedBy, and well, just look up the URI there.
> 
> see my reply to max, stephen's semweb agent unfortunately doesn't
> have an rdfs:seeAlso yet. All it starts with is a single URI.
> 
> Imagine a bot with a T-Shirt:
> [[
>    I was lost on the Semantic Web,
>    and all they gave me was this stupid URI.
> ]] 
> Now, what should the bot do next?
> 
> ;)
> benjamin

What any human agent would do with an unknown term on the web: ask 
google (or some other SW specific search engine)?  ;-)

John

Received on Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:55:21 UTC