- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 03:22:32 +0100
- To: "Stuart Naylor" <indtec@eircom.net>
- Cc: "RDF-Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> The main struggle with semantic is where is the root [...] There aren't any: and that's the hardest bit. No roots of the ontology trees, only a handful of terms that are even vaguely uniformly implemented by parsers, and a heck of a lot of URIs. Sounds like a recipie for disaster, but then so was "being able to link from any document to any other doucment"... that won't work, you can't have a universal space, and even if you did, what about all the broken links? And so on... So RDF works on the principle of least power (er, at least it should do - XML RDF doesn't), and that's great news for interoperability, but harder for the guys trying to make applications, which is why there aren't all that many right now. But we have the building blocks, so it shouldn't be all that long. I don't forsee this as being one of those things that is permanently 6 months away - too many good minds working on this one. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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