- From: Jimmy Cerra <jimbobbs@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:32:22 -0400
- To: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Take a look at the graphic [1] at the top of Tim Burners-Lee's original proposal for the WWW [2]. The similarities between that image and a RDF graph are remarkable! Is RDF a direct descendent of that work? Why did the linking mechanism for HTML drift from "semantically useful" arcs to generic anchors? I mean, a lot of the issues that Dr. Burners-Lee described (such as the inadequacy of keywords) were repeated with search engines on the WWW. Why was the originally intended linking concept lost and supplanted with the less-effective system predominately used now? -- James F. Cerra [1] http://www.w3.org/History/1989/Image1.gif [2] http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
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