- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:23:53 -0500
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- CC: Timothy Falconer <timothy@immuexa.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: >>Timothy Falconer wrote: >> >>>Blog post excerpt: >>> >>>"Reading such comments confounds me, since they've got it *exactly* >>>wrong. The Semantic Web approach is LOOSE, not normalized. > > > http://bigfractaltangle.com/archive/2006/01/02.jsp > > On 1/3/06, Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org> wrote: > ... > However, > >>if that's the case, from a relational data modeling perspective, RDF >>data is *highly* normalized: > > > Frank's technically correct of course, but in Timothy's defence, the > word "normalized" came from a David Weinberger quote : > [[ > I fear that the Semantic Web will go the way of SGML and for basically > the same reason: normalization of metadata works real well in confined > applications where the payoff is high, control is centralized and > discipline can be enforced. In other words: not the Web. > ]] > > Frank, Timothy, anyone - got any words that would be comprehensible > for the non-specialist but also accurately convey what Weinberger is > trying to say? (So we can say he's wrong more formally ;-) > Danny-- What *is* Weinberger trying to say? If I could figure that out, I might be of more help in concocting alternative wordings! --Frank
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