- From: Bill dehOra <Wdehora@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:19:11 -0000
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
:And when this, I thought "This is a modeling problem." It's not the :XML syntax (though that may be an issue, see below), it's that they :didn't know how to build RDF/ RDFS models, or what to do with the :models once they had been built. Agreed. But it may be the case that they would have had difficulty regardless of the modelling language. :Amplifying the second: the basic problem with modeling languages like :RDF is that they are fairly abstract. Years and years of experience :in knowledge modeling has taught the AI community that most people, :be they programmers or no, have difficulty building robust and reusable :conceptual models. Well, modelling is a task in abstraction. Many people may not come equipped with the skills to do such a task. :This implies that RDF needs an accessible user interface. Lots of things need accessible user interfaces, but in this case it's only a sugar coating. I'm not disparaging Protege, I'm saying that to get RDF widely used will require more than a good UI. -Bill
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