- From: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:06:21 +0200
- To: "'Azamat'" <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>, "'SW-forum'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: "'John F. Sowa'" <sowa@BESTWEB.NET>
Hi Azamat, > I much doubt that this note may have any big use. Recommend to > learn more about the relationship of Data, Information, Knowledge > and Wisdom. We have done this for 10 years now with mixed results. So why not try a slightly different approach? Cheers, Chris > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] > Im Auftrag von Azamat > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 17:24 > An: 'SW-forum' > Cc: John F. Sowa > Betreff: Re: Putting Government Data online > > "Tim typically hid his talent under a bushel > must read : http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html" > > I much doubt that this note may have any big use. Recommend to learn > more > about the relationship of Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom. Good > to > start from the Ackoff's paper: "From data to wisdom." There is a rich > literature on the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy > (pyramid), > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW. More advanced concepts are Linked > Information and Linked Knowledge or the Wisdom Pyramid with > meaningfully > dynamic knowledge networks topology: full relationship as well as line, > loop, bus, mesh, star, or tree. > > It is claimed that "Linked Data allows different things in different > datasets of all kinds to be connected." > http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/linked-open-data. > > As it is, , Linked Data looks a big mess-up of data, > http://linkeddata.org/, > with low quality content and lack of any knowledge structure or > inference > mechanism. > > > > I share the concerns recently expressed by John Sowa on other forum: > > "My major complaint about the Semantic Web is that they ignored all > the development techniques that worked successfully for years, and > they failed to provide a migration path. > > Following are some of the most egregious blunders: > > 1. Ignoring the fact that every major web site is built on top > of a relational database. The major sites use big commercial > databases. Smaller sites are based on LAMP -- Linux, Apache, > MySQL, and Perl, Python, or PHP. > > 2. Building RDF on top of triples, instead of the SQL n-tuples. > > 3. Failing to integrate their notations with UML diagrams, which > include type hierarchies and various notations for constraints. > > If the Semantic Web had addressed these three issues from the > beginning, > it would have been integrated into the mainstream of data processing in > about 3 or 4 years. Today, we would have seen some truly spectacular > applications. > The SemWeb still has a chance, but it has to be integrated with the > mainstream of data processing before it can become the mainstream." > > > > Azamat Abdoullaev > > http://standardontology.org > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com> > To: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:00 PM > Subject: Putting Government Data online > > > > Tim typically hid his talent under a bushel > > > > must read : > > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html > > > > -- > > http://danny.ayers.name > >
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