- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:23:20 -0400
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
[Rahul Singh] [snip] However (and I think this goes to the core of the "why RDF" debates) the issue is not to make RDF out be some silver bullet that will solve all the problems that have plagued computers, AI and intelligent systems. [Tom P] I agree, and my point is to tie the examples to a story about why it is good-better-RealGood to use RDF instead of the Other Brand, when trying to show what it is good for to people who do not know. [RS] It is just a formal way of representing data in a flexible universal format that everyone agrees upon and decides to use. I don't think its any different than the web services people deciding that SOAP will be used as a communication protocol and WSDL as a description language. [Tom P] Well, no, it is more than a format. You have a standardized intercahnge format, a defined data model, a theoretical basis for interpreting RDF data sets, tools which can process RDF data from all kinds of sources, etc., etc. Not just a format. Cheers, Tom P
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