- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:45:13 -0800
- To: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
Misha Wolf wrote: > Windsor (United Kingdom), 10 January 2006 -- Sharing and accurately > describing news will take a giant leap forward this month > Developed by a consortium of more than 40 of the world's major news > agencies and news system vendors, NewsML 2 Architecture is based on > the wildly popular XML markup language. > > The basic goal of the NewsML 2 Architecture is to provide a single > generic model for exchanging all kinds of newsworthy information. Just what we need, yet another "consortium" of those in hierarchies that represent the problem rather than the solution. A "single generic model" and "major news agencies" are ideas that seem more like our enemy than a worthwhile goal. This is exactly why "hierarchies/ontologies/'major'" are evil. Love.
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