- From: <R.van.Dort@Everest.nl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:47:26 +0100
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
There are lots of interesting discussions in this forum. On the other hand I get a real 'deja vu' following the vivid discussions on items beyond core RDF. Knowing a bit of the developments at Cycorp (www.cyc.com) I see some wheels being reinvented. Cycorp has developed a knowledge base, an inference engine, a query and manipulation language and -last but not least- a comprehensive set of content consisting of abstract microtheories containing real-world knowledge. Regarding discussions on 'thing' and 'resource': see one of the top level ontologies that you can access after signing the guestbook at http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/index.html 'Thing' is an oftenly used top-level concept but I must admit that "Resource Description Framework" sounds better than "Thing Description Framework". Resource description is our context. There are many other initiatives worldwide: WordNet has been referred to earlier in this forum; there is also OntoBroker and the Wave / CKML efforts (Robert E. Kent et al). Let us focus on the basic items for RDF and link to work done by others later on.
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