- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:08:05 +0000
- To: Frank Carvalho <dko4342@vip.cybercity.dk>
- CC: "McBride, Brian" <brian.mcbride@hp.com>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Frank, > From: McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com> > [ . . . ] > > From: Frank Carvalho > > [ . . . ] > > It was clear to me from the beginning that a SOA soon will turn > > into another tower of babel, unless there's a clear strategy to > > normalize the contents flowing on the service bus, and to > > address the issues of versioning and development in knowledge. > > That is my view too - though I don't have a lot of evidence I can > point to in support of it. This is a great opportunity for > Semantic Web technology. I've been calling this problem "babelization" for the past few years: http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0717-semweb-dbooth/slide10-0.html Slides 8-10 of the following presentation give a view of why I think efforts to solve it through a "common model" in XML are typically doomed: http://dbooth.org/2007/rdf-and-soa/rdf-and-soa-slides.ppt Those slides are derived from the following paper on RDF and SOA, which may be of interest if you haven't seen it already: http://dbooth.org/2007/rdf-and-soa/rdf-and-soa-paper.htm However, the slides omit an important point about the use of REST and SPARQL endpoints that is included at http://dbooth.org/2007/rdf-and-soa/rdf-and-soa-paper.htm#sparql-endpoint BTW, kudos on your presentation at HP Software Universe in Barcelona last November! I'm afraid I wasn't aware of it until afterwards, when someone brought it to my attention, but I was quite impressed with your slides. I was a little puzzled that I didn't see RDF mentioned though. :) FYI, I am a member of the Architecture and Shared Technology team in HP Software and was there to present a paper (with Steve Battle of HP Labs) on a SPARQL adaptor for HP's Universal CMDB product. (Standard disclaimer: This is research and was presented for discussion only. No product commitment is expressed or implied.) David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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