- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:48:29 +0100
- To: Brian Manley <manleyr@telcordia.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:53:32 -0500, Brian Manley <manleyr@telcordia.com> wrote: Definitions not easy, nowadays I guess I think of Semantic Web applications as being anything that uses the Web and even just a wee bit of metadata and/logic. > consumer-focused applications ( PIMs, personal collection management, etc ) Couple of (sets of) nice consumer apps, presented in a similar fashion to shrinkwrap products are the the nice shiny calendar/PIM things from http://semaview.com/ and photo+ things from http://storymill.net/learn/ > systems integration products. Dunno, systems integration always seemed to me to be the whole point ;-) (Such products do exist) If you've a day or two free, check out the things linked from Dave Beckett's Most Magnificent Resource Guide : http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/ I don't think I've really seen any yet, but I think it likely that there will also be more of a tendency to use SW technologies to augment systems that are primary built in a traditional fashion. e.g. a lot of the content management systems around have no real need to be RDF through and through, and would have little use for inference. Using a well-established RDMBS in the core maybe makes sense. But such a system as a whole could be stacks more useful if it used a small RDF store/subsystem to look after FOAF-based person/contact management. I think there are quite a few situations, both desktop and Web-oriented, where a hybrid might be more appropriate than 100% triplestore or 100% RDBMS or 100% filesystem-based or whatever. That's only looking at the data side - I suppose there is also the possibility of using RDF/OWL reasoning alongside procedural/OO code, but I've a feeling that mindset will take longer to spread compared to the basic graph-relational data model side. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
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