Re: Semantic Web gTLDs

Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote:

> ...metadata have been spoilt
>    by pornographers...
> ...a secret war going out there.
>
> One goal of a SWgTLD is a get clean,
> unspoilt, METADATA.  Sites that are
> purposedly spoiling their metadata,
> are removed from the SWgTLD registry.

There is no such thing as clean unspoiled metadata.

Anyone who writes metadata, anyone who annotates
content, and in fact, anyone who creates the
content in the first place, has a reason for
doing so: *everyone* is biased.

The important thing with metadata is it's
provenance: if you know the origin of a piece of
information, you can decide how much you wish it
to affect the representation of the web that you
see.

All that spoiled, biased, metadata is what makes
the semantic web different from the web.  Where
once there were links, now there are machine
interpretable opinion.

I just can't see the need for a gTLD, it offers
nothing that services in the existing web cannot
provide.

Rich
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Received on Saturday, 8 October 2005 04:41:20 UTC