On 10/10/2012 7:54 AM, Peter Yim wrote:
> YES! ... Thank you for relaying this very exciting news, Markus. (01)
Yes, indeed. Note the opening two sentences from the announcement: (02)
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/google-microsoft-facebook-and-others-launch-web-platform-docs-a-web-standards-documentation-site/
> A number of leading browser vendors and other tech companies,
> including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, HP, Nokia,
> Mozilla, Opera and the W3C, just announced the launch of the
> Web Platform Docs project at WebPlatform.org. The project aims
> to create “a new, authoritative open web standards documentation site” (03)
Note that the W3C is mentioned, but only after the list of vendors.
The video on that page includes an endorsement by Tim Berners-Lee,
but the groups with money are listed first. That is a clue to the
future developments. (04)
The software foundation is Media Wiki (developed by and for Wikipedia)
with the extensions for Semantic Media Wiki plus PHP and MySQL: (05)
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Special:Version (06)
The semantics is based on "templates", not on logic: (07)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms (08)
For a brief summary, see the 2-page Quick Reference Guide: (09)
http://postable.net/smwqr/smw-quick-reference.pdf (010)
Following are the property types: (011)
Page (default), String, Text, Code, Number, Date, Boolean, URL,
Email, Telephone number, Temperature, Geographical coordinates (012)
Following is a sample definition on a page called "United States": (013)
{{#set_internal:Is president of|Has name=James Madison
|Has start year=1801|Has end year=1809|Has vice
president#list=George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry}} (014)
Note that their basic data structure is a typed list (AKA N-tuple)
with the option of nested lists. (015)
This doesn't mean that the SemWeb is dead. But it does mean that
the 2-page quick reference for the Semantic Media Wiki is a better
clue to the future of the SemWeb than any of the layer cakes. (016)
The absence of any mention of logic or ontology in their announcement
means that the SMW developers don't see a need for it -- yet. But
their use of MySQL, N-tuples, and typed N-tuples indicates that a
logic and ontology that can support them would be highly desirable. (017)
John Sowa (018)
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