Re: How semantic is semantic web?

 From the article:
 > These technologies have in fact nothing to do with
 > semantics, because they never refer to anything in the
 > real world: they never have any meaning, except in the
 > mind of those expressing their knowledge in a
 > machine-readable language
 > It seems therefore misleading and unfitting to keep on
 > pointing with the word semantic a not semantic at all
 > technology.

Semantic from the Greek "sema" which translates as "sign" or 
"coded message".

The definite article "semantic web" does not exist; it never 
will.

There is only the WWW which is forever becoming
a more semantic web, i.e. the web with more signposts.

Q: How semantic is semantic web?
A: More than yesterday, less than tomorrow.

-- 
Rich Boakes
http://boakes.org/sw

Received on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:36:08 UTC