- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:43:01 +0100
- To: "Sampo Syreeni" <decoy@iki.fi>, "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: "RDF interest group" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> I think that sort of thing qualifies as Them, so in fact > they *are* in control. But these kind of "standards" will no longer be necessary with the Semantic Web. This particular endeavour is looking to produce a standard, so for example, all database entires under "Amino_Acid" will mean a certain standard thing. What the SW enables you to say is that "Amino" in my particular database system is equal to your "Amino_Acid" column, so as long as you spot the relationships, there's no need for some centralized root of the ontology tree. Just make it up as you go along, and use the inferences. We can already make this Semantic Web inference type stuff work on a demonstration level - it shouldn't be long before there are tools that can handle this on a day-to-day industrial strength basis. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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