- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:43:02 +0100
- To: Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Graybeal <graybeal@mbari.org>, semantic-web@w3.org, aldo.gangemi@gmail.com, Conor Shankey <cshankey@reinvent.com>, Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com>, Ora Lassila <ora.lassila@nokia.com>, "Pan, Dr Jeff Z." <jeff.z.pan@abdn.ac.uk>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@csail.mit.edu>, Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk
Michael F Uschold wrote: > > BTW, this discussion has inspired me to write a paper on the topic. > Probably too late to submit to WWW conference, but I will make whatever > I have available in some manner when it is ready Great, I look forward to seeing it. Can you post a copy to semantic-web when it's ready? BTW - and perhaps this is a bit cheeky - but may I take this opportunity suggest (to you and others) that titles like 'URI Crisis' are a little overly-dramatic. I'd rather see dull titles like 'URI - Mild Nuisance', 'URIs don't solve everything' or 'URIs Provide Opportunity for Further Clarity and Best Practice'. The use of URIs provides mostly syntax and some machinery around decentralised control; it also quite naturally and inevitably provides many many ways to screw up. This doesn't constitute a crisis any more than the fact that Unicode allows people to write illogical things or bad poetry. Or that UML and OWL allow bad or vague conceptual models to acquire the outer trappings of formality. I find the talk of URI and identity crisis a little alarmist, and I fear they're one of the factors that put people off from approaching this technology. Are we really in a crisis situation? Should I stop or start doing something asap? cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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