- From: rich boakes <rich@boakes.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:35:53 +0000
- To: Chiara Carlino <chiaracarlino@epistematica.com>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
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
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