- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:47:35 -0500
- To: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Martijn van der Plaat <martijn@profec.nl>, Percy Enrique Rivera Salas <privera.salas@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>
On 2010-12 -08, at 04:35, Martin Hepp wrote: > In general, I think that the Semantic Web must use a decentralized approach for the definition and adoption of conceptual elements, same as the Web uses decentralized, fault-tolerant approaches as a fundamental principle. So calling for standardization bodies to maintain "authoritative" vocabularies will not work at Web Scale, IMO. At least, standards bodies may be to slow to provide ontologies and ontology updates (INCOTERMS, for instance, updates it's definition of trade terms only once per decade) You need a blend of a few global authoritative ontologies and a lot of grass-roots ones and everything in between, in a scale fee way. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal The Fractal Nature of the Semantic Web http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/Papers/AIMagazine/fractal-paper.pdf Tim
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