- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:34:56 -0000
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <swi-dev@egroups.com>
> I drew a concept map contrasting your experience of the Web > with your experience of the Semantic Cloud, and suggesting > that perhaps the latter is more analogous to our experience > within out society, than it is to the former. Yes, that's more or less the direction in which I'm starting to think. Of course, the difference between a SM and your mind is that you can have an almost unlimited number of SM's. Another *similarity* that you forgot to mention (well, it's hard to represent on a graph) is the fact that society itself is bordered and fragmented. Same goes for the Semantic Cloud I think. I suppose the "Semantic Web" is the sum parts of the fragmented Semantic Cloud, the SM, and the interactions between them. It seems that every few days lately I write another article/introduction about the SW. In the upcoming one, I'll probably be including more pragmatic material, rather than some of the abstract notions of previous "introductions". Many people seem to be arguing by example that doing the small things and getting the SW going is more important that getting an overall picture of it - i.e. discovery over authoring. I'm not sure... I don't think there's any harm in overviews... heck, if there were more overviews of the WWW at the beginning, we may have had more browsers that could edit as well, and that would have lead to a more cooperative Web. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . [ :name "Sean B. Palmer" ] :hasHomepage <http://infomesh.net/sbp/> .
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