- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- Date: 25 Feb 2000 06:27:21 -0500
- To: xml-dev@xml.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net> writes: > RDF: why? To exchange serialized objects independent of protocols or programming language (forget about the semantic web hooey). RDF is suboptimal for this, but it gets a lot of things right (i.e. extensibility) and there doesn't seem to be another reasonable candidate out there yet. On the other hand, the RDF-Syntax spec is scaring people away in droves, so it's hard to know what to do. There's a lot of money in this: e-commerce requires much richer data nowadays, and retailers want that data to flow from wholesalers and wholesalers want that data to flow from producers. If you take a look at data-exchange right now (tab-delimited dumps, product-specific tables, etc.) it's a bit of a bad joke. Writing specific XML formats for each exchange task is a small improvement, but you miss out on the network effect of being able to share 90% of the processing software, because the XML data model is too low-level. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@megginson.com http://www.megginson.com/
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