John, (01)
On 4/22/2011 3:43 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
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> AH
>> ... we should be aware of the problems in the db's and sware systems
>> of the past. However, we are embarking with the explicit aim of
>> making our ontologies interoperable and reusable.
> *Every* major computer system since the 1960s was designed with
> the goal of being interoperable and reusable with all other
> systems, especially legacy systems. Those that weren't died.
>
> The original WWW worked very well with legacy systems. But the
> Semantic Web was designed as a total break with the past. That is
> why the growth of the SW has been glacially slow compared to the
> growth of the WWW. The theme of my iss.pdf talk is the need for
> a more flexible and extensible foundation for Semantic Systems:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/iss.pdf
> (02)
Curious if you have compared the growth of the Semantic Web with Esperanto? (03)
Thinking the higher % of semantics in a medium (think RDF/RDFa), the
slower the growth rate (or even the possibility of growth). (04)
The WWW had a very low % of semantics as a medium (think TCP/IP). (05)
The SW has a higher (how much I cannot say) % of semantics as a medium. (06)
The higher the % of semantics, the closer the medium resembles a natural
language and so subject to all the difficulties of the same. (07)
Hope you are at the start of a great weekend! (08)
Patrick (09)
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