- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:02:26 -0400
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@baltimore.com>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Hear hear! Graham Klyne wrote: > snip > > But it seems that anything that makes RDF easier to deploy has to be of > considerable value. > > And I think a big part of the value of RDF is (will be) that it allows the > information from a range of existing and emerging applications to be > combined -- sort of doing for information and data what the Internet did > for computing and communication. (Think of a variant of Metcalfe's > law: the value of RDF will be exponentially proportional to the number of > applications that use it.) I think it is inevitable that there will be > many special purpose applications on the Internet that deal only with a > specific data format. But if it's cheap to design these specific data > formats to be also accessible to general purpose RDF applications, I think > that's a big win. > > If all application designers are prepared to commit to using RDF, then this > debate is moot. But I think there are many (and some of the W3C advisory > committee debates about the Semantic Web activity illustrate this) who are > still digesting and stabilizing application designs based on XML. My goal > is to make it as easy as possible for these folks to adopt XML formats that > are also RDF compliant. (I regard this as an area where the original RDF > M&S actually did a pretty good job, even if it wasn't communicated very > effectively.) > > Thus, my position is trying to make it easy for application designers to > take baby steps on the way to using RDF without having to chew the whole > elephant at once. > snip > > #g > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Graham Klyne Baltimore Technologies > Strategic Research Content Security Group > <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> <http://www.mimesweeper.com> > <http://www.baltimore.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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