- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:11:29 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- CC: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Pat Hayes > [ . . . ] > The SWeb seems to be ticking along without any need for a > special grounding mechanism. In practice, people manage to > get their referents grounded well enough in practice, without > needing to be told how to do it. Yes and no. Given a particular ontology for grounding a URI, then yes, in practice people manage well enough. But given a potentially unbounded set of ontologies for grounding that URI, any of which *might* be the right one to use, then no, people do *not* know how to make their applications select one over another. This is a real problem. For a given URI, people do not yet agree on what algorithm to use to select the grounding for that URI. David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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