- From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:14:17 +0100
- To: "Jim Hendler <hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: "las" <las@olin.edu>, "Guus Schreiber <schreiber" <schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl>, "www-webont-wg" <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
>> >> > Section 2.2 >>... Perhaps it could be generalized slightly to include >> > audio and other non-text web objects (though the examples could remain >> > specific). I think that the issues are largely similar. >>> >>> Ontologies can be used to provide semantic annotation ofr collections of >> > images, audio, or other non-textual web objects. (Rest of para. same, >>> except "...can describe these nontextual objects in different ways..." >>> and "...retrieval of nontextual objects without requiring >> > domain-specific search tools".) > > I think this is a very good and important change that is an easy >editing change, let me endorse it -- I am constantly reminding people >that a lot of the web is not text, and that ontologies are more, not >less, important for the non-text domains Lynn's addition helps >emphasize this point. I love to endorse that too, very much! as I remember (from TimBL I think) Imagine what computers can understand when there is a vast tangle of interconnected terms and data that can automatically be followed! Images contain a lot of meaningful data, but it's only evidence in combination with other Semantic Web data -- Jos
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