On 28/04/2008, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com> wrote: Thanks David. > - requires a critical mass of participating sites to be > > interesting and useful > > > > The technologies are already demonstrably useful (e.g. I'm > > now using Twine daily), though the really big gains will only > > start emerging once there is wider participation - the > > network effect again. > > > It really depends on what you want to do. SemWeb technology is useful > right *now* in addressing data integration challenges, even apart from the > Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is currently small, but growing. Some > things are already enabled, but far more will be enabled as more data is > made SemWeb accessible. Good point. As has been pointed out elsewhere, as well as the sci fi-like angle of the 2001 Scientific American piece, there are also more immediate nuts & bolts problems in data integration. 2001: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web 2007: http://thefigtrees.net/lee/sw/sciam/semantic-web-in-action Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com ~ http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/this_weeks_semantic_web/
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