- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:06:17 +0200
- To: "Margaret Green" <mgreen@nextance.com>, "R.V.Guha" <guha@guha.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
>Their analyses produce results. These results are assertions. I would >model the analytical results. There may be the potential for inferences >to be drawn among sets of results - a form of meta-analysis, if you >will. Exactly so. The analysis will (I presume) produce a bunch of figures - what to do with them? Conclusions will be drawn or decisions will be made on the basis of them, presumably by experts in the field. Looking at current practices, then its quite likely that rdf etc wouldn't offer much new. But this is short-sighted ("I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"). The experts may be digital - expert systems have been around for decades, though have tended to be fairly proprietry. RDF/RDFS/DAML opens the field rather more to non-proprietry approaches, making it easier to combine results across disciplines, perhaps using large scale and distributed systems that communicate using web technologies, and perhaps even occasionally produce findings that the human experts would miss. Cheers, Danny. >I was talking yesterday to a friend whose is working with >some geologists who want to share data. They are of >course planning on using xml and are in the process >of writing up their xml schemas. > >They have applications that do all kinds of sophisticated analysis >on this data. They have no need of doing the kinds of inferences >that rdfs/daml enables. Their apps do computations that are far >more complex and it would be easy for them to modify their >apps to make it do the few (if any) inferential facilities rdfs/daml >offers, if the need arises. > >I tried to make a case for rdf/rdfs/daml, but given the >substantially more tools available for xml/xml schema and their >lack of interest in simple inferences, I couldn't in good faith push >too hard for rdf/rdfs/daml. > >So, should they be using rdfs/daml? Why? > >guha >
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