Re: New Intro Reloaded - New Site: rdfabout.net

Hi,

Quoting Joshua Tauberer <tauberer@for.net>:
> A month ago I posted a new intro-to-rdf article (and, btw, thanks for 
> all of the suggestions).  The problem I was trying to fix is that, as 
> far as I've seen, we need to do a much better job of explaining to the 
> outside world just why RDF is so simple and useful.  We're not going to 
> reach a Semantic Web any time soon unless more people know about and 
> understand RDF.

Even if all the people would understand just how simple and useful
RDF is, they would still use SQL if it was easier to use; currently
SQL is very much easier to use than RDF. It is very much easier for
an average programmer to apply SQL than RDF. It is easy to build an 
RDF schema with an ontology editor, but using the schema e.g. as a 
source of UI texts of an application is very much easier with 
assorted SQL tools than with JENA (maybe other toolkits are 
better?). I would welcome a super-simple RDFS toolkit with 
functionality to support _only_ RDFS. People could start with that 
instead of drowning into almost CYC-like SWRL, and into the jungle 
of all the methods needed to handle SWRL. 


your tutorial is anyhow clear
A.Styrman

Received on Monday, 7 November 2005 09:52:14 UTC