- From: Mazzilli, Rodrigo <rodrigo.mazzilli@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:19:16 +0200
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hello all, I think we make a big mistake if we attempt to compare the WWW evolution with current SemWeb efforts. Simply put, SemWeb is a far more complex attempt to bring the world together than the WWW technologies developed at CERN. Complexity is not however the only factor! The main problem in my opinion is that SemWeb has some (critical) areas which still need some research. Most important though, implementations *should comply* to W3C's standards definition. WWW succeeded simply because it was based on basic standards which everyone accepted! HTML 1.0 was probably not the best hypertext markup language we could have invented but it was simple and straightforward! Even a 12-year-old child could understand it and (boom!) suddenly everyone was writing web pages. For instance, ontologies available today differ very much in format. Some have plain XML+Namespaces, some plain text file, some DAML, some RDF and some OWL and many more. Personally I don't waste my time investigating representations or implementations which are not W3C compliant, which I consider THE authority in Semweb efforts. Regards, Rodrigo ______________________________________________________________________ Rodrigo B Mazzilli Consultant HP Services - Consulting & Integration Hewlett-Packard GmbH Herrenberger Str. 140 71034 Boeblingen Germany Phone: +49 (7031) 14-7877 Mobile: +49 (170) 856-8576 Fax: +49 (7031) 14-7163 Mailstop: HPC-AUTO http://www.hp.com/de/consulting ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Rodrigo+Mazzilli&fin gerprint=on
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