Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

Hello Dave,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:31:46PM +0000, Dave Raggett wrote:
> This is the basis for the Web of Things :-)
> RDF as the basis for a) semantic descriptions of the kinds of things and their relationships to each other and to the context in which they reside, and b) describing software objects that applications can interact with locally independent of where the actual thing is or the means to communicate with it. 

This does not sound like something that is needed right now. This sounds like a vision.

I hope we can describe what problems RDF+friends is meant to solve without resorting to visions. As one of our chancellors once said: "People with visions should go to the doctor" :-) Why? They are hard to get right. The bigger they are, the more likely it is you got it wrong. I think even the Web started with moderate ambitions - but then surprised everybody.

Besides: IMO, everybody who thinks that connecting more "things" to the Internet is a good idea should read more security news. And we are even unable to get very basic and supposedly simple stuff right. Stuff like glibc strstr() for example.

Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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