- From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:12:57 -0800
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: Ying Ding <dingying@indiana.edu>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org
Dan Brickley wrote: > However it did not leave any footprint in the academic literature. We > might ask why. Like much of the work around W3C and tech industry > standards, the artifacts it left behind don't often show up in the > citation databases. A white paper here, a Web-based specification > there, ... it's influence cannot easily be measured through academic > citation patterns, despite the fact that without it, the vast majority > of papers mentioned in > http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~dingying/Publication/JIS-1098-v4.pdf > would never have existed. > > > IIRC there was an explicit proposal by an earlier European paper (I think with Fensel as an author) to align some academic work with the W3C effort, essentially to provide branding, name recognition and a transfer path for the academic work Maybe: OIL: Ontology Infrastructure to Enable the Semantic Web Dieter Fensel 1, Ian Horrocks 2, Frank van Harmelen 1, Deborah McGuinness 3, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider 4 "Given the current dominance and importance of the WWW, a syntax of an ontology exchange language must be formulated using existing web standards for information representation." Ying Ding's paper suffers from excluding technical papers such as W3C recs. These are widely cited, typically moreso than academic work. They also have better review process than academic stuff. I tend to agree with Dan that her work misrepresents what really happened. Jeremy
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