Duane wrote: (01)
> I will echo these two paragraphs with a strong emphasis on “highly
> desirable” as someone who still has to write code now and then. (02)
I will echo Duane as someone who still has to write code every day :-). (03)
> However, all practical languages for DBs and KBs get data from and
> send data to systems that use other languages. Therefore, it is
> highly desirable to define mappings to and from various languages. (04)
There is a call for implementations of SKOS made by the W3C: (05)
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/> (06)
So rather than attempting to map L1 <-> L2, L1 <-> L3, etc., what is the
chance that the champions of each language can define a mapping from Ln
<-> SKOS? Is SKOS rich enough by itself, or combined with
RDFS/OWL/Prolog/OPS-5 better, or is it primative enough, to express the
same statement or theorm that you could state in Ln? (07)
Take the following collection of statements as the simplest example I
can think of: (08)
All men have an aspect which is called 'height'.
The height of a man is quantifiable.
The height of a man is a 'length' as an International System
of Units non-negative scaler value (metre). (09)
Socrates is a man.
Socrates is two meters high. (010)
I've attempted to write these statements in every language I've seen,
with some success, but I am not convinced that any of my translations of
those statements would be interoperable with anyone elses, even if we
both used the same language. But here I stand in the footsteps of giants. (011)
Joel (012)
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