- From: Green, Margaret <mgreen@consilient.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:20:13 -0700
- To: "'dehora'" <bill@dehora.fsnet.co.uk>, RDF-Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hello Bill, A few annotations. >-We need code to generate such provenance. > >-We need code to evaluate such provenance. And we need RDF in good working order for general use. That first, then these others can follow in due course. >-We need web architecture for the code and the relating of it to metadata. >I understand Tim Berners Lee believes digital signatures to be pretty >fundamental to furthering web architecture. They may well arise due >to commercial and political pressure to target and legislate people >and behaviour in the first instance. Might it be more of the opt-in model - if I want my metadata to be accepted into a semantic service, I agree to vouch for it. >-It's not always possible to determine the difference between what JL Austin >called "misfires" and "abuses" of assertions/informations (more generally >speech acts): best you can do is identify "infelicities". This a bit like >trying to determine why exactly the server never responded to my request. I might have to retract my assertions and state them anew. Personally, I'm not looking for complete, correct, metadata (and semantic truth). I'm looking for useful information that I accept I must filter and evaluate, forming my own opinions, and carefully choosing when to act on such information. >-How would we separate infelicity from the way people drift over time in the >way in which they classify things? The entropy of it all. At each stage in my life, my set of Truths changes. If I assert them and leave them in effect, eventually I assert both the truth and falsehood of some Object of Knowledge. .... <-What does it mean to sign metadata? My word is my bond? I hope not. Only that, I said this. (And I am human and fallible...) <One way or another, validating uncertain metadata seems like a lot of work. <regards, <Bill de hÓra Yes... ciao, Margaret
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