- From: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:46:58 +0000
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
Harry Halpin wrote: > The Semantic Web, unlike most other Web standards, is basically a > research project - and a far-sighted and correct one it seems! - > disguised as a standardization project, and so its not surprising that > after a number of years, some concrete lessons have been learned. I > see no reason to aim them at the spec. There seems to be a (maybe unintended) implication here that an activity may be either research or standardization, but not both. I think there is undoubtedly a strong research element in the "Semantic Web project", but one that, mainly by virtue of its scale, cannot be conducted without the support of some standardization. I also think there are activities using the Semantic Web standards that are not really research (though what at a technical level is engineering may still be part of something that is research at a social level). My point is that I see the "SWeb project" as research, engineering *and* standardization. And it is partly because of this that I would be wary of rushing to update the RDF standards too quickly - until we are more certain about the changes that might actually be useful. #g
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