Re: Do these folks know about RDF?

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote:

>> 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.

I understand -- and appreciate -- the idea. I probably wouldn't be on the
list if I didn't. But in the short term, in the absence of inference, I
still think these Big Guy standards will reign.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front