(This is way too cross posted, so after my one shot, this blast, I will not reply to any email sent to more than one group at a time) At 12:49 +0200 6/17/04, Jean-Luc Delatre wrote: > > >Is the Semantic Web a realistic endeavour >or just a SCAM aimed at collecting funds >from research, VCs or otherwise? > Oh my G-d, they're on to us! Better tell all those folks at IBM, HP, Adobe, Sun, Cisco, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Nokia, etc. etc. to stop pretending to do this stuff!!! :-> Of course, if the author is open-minded enough to try, he could look at the testimonials that came out with Owl and RDF [1] from people at many places who are using this technology for real, could explore some of the uses in current systems (I'd suggest Adobe XMP as a start) and could talk to some of the people actually doing this stuff before sending our such a ridiculous ad hominem attack In fact, here's my challenge - I'll bet that by the end of this calendar year there will be RDF and/or OWL on over 10 million-accessible resources, that a search engine will be available that indexes at lover 250,000 web pages with RDF or OWL on them and finds at least 20M RDF triples on these pages, that OWL ontologies with over 10,000 classes are available on line, and that at least one major software vendor will announce an ontology management system. What's more, I'll bet any amount of money anyone wishes that this will be the case [2] [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/01/sws-testimonial [2] note, before you bet you might want to consider that all of these are already true, so my bet is a pretty sure thing. cf: Adobe's XMP, Geoff Chappell's search engine, the NCI ontology (and OpenCyc), and IBM's SNObase. -- Professor James Hendler http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-277-3388 (Cell)
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