- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:29:10 +0100
- To: Yuzhong Qu <yzqu@seu.edu.cn>
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Yuzhong Thanks for your precisions about Falcon. I hope you didn't take what I wrote about vultures vs falcons as any kind of subliminal criticiscm of your application, which is very cool indeed. :-) It was just a follow-up of the metaphor started by Danny, in defense of very honorable, sociable, useful and too often despised, birds. Regards Bernard Yuzhong Qu a écrit : > Hi, > > The original implication of Falcon (in our team) is as follows: > > Falcon is an infrastructure for semantic web applications, which aims > at providing fundamental technologies for _F_inding, _A_ligning and > _L_earning ontologies, and ultimately, for _C_apturing knowledge from > the web via an _ON_tology-driven approach. > Falcon-AO: a practical ontology matching system (named after “Aligning > Ontologies with Falcon”) > http://iws.seu.edu.cn/projects/matching/ > > Falcons: a semantic web search engine > http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/ > > > Yuzhong Qu > http://iws.seu.edu.cn/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com > <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>> > To: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com <mailto:danny.ayers@gmail.com>> > Cc: "SWIG" <semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:24 PM > Subject: Vultures Re: what happened to schemaweb.info? > > > Hi Danny > > ... another one the name of which escapes me - something like > Vultures? (pretty sure it isn't that, but it'd make a > > cool name for some kind of harvester - what is the carrion of the web?). > > > Of course it was Falcons, but indeed vultures would make a better > metaphor. First because they are scavengers, and we badly need that > given all the rotten stuff around, and second because they have a cool > collective strategy to get at it. Vultures monitor a quite large > territory from above, and at the same time the behavior of their > neighbouring fellows. So if one moves down to a prey, the guys next door > follow inwards and downwards, and the information propagates quickly to > friends of friends. Social semantic web, sort of. :-) > Falcons are not that kind of social birds (neither are owls). They hunt > individually, for themselves and families at best. Good parents, > not-so-good neighbours. > > Bernard > > -- > > *Bernard Vatant > *Knowledge Engineering > ---------------------------------------------------- > *Mondeca** > *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France > Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> <http://www.mondeca.com> > ---------------------------------------------------- > Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 > Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com > <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> > Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1334 - Release Date: 18/03/2008 20:52 > -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/>
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