On 2/1/13 1:52 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> Hello Kingsley,
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:04:33PM -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> As you now, if the entity relationship semantics are machine and human
>> comprehensible the cost of translation and transformation drop.
> Humans have to learn RDF like any other language. Machines do not understand
> language - including RDF. (01)
An RDF processor understands the RDF model. The developer of an non RDF
processor can assimilate the entity relationship semantics expressed in
an RDF model (which is based on first-order logic) and then make a
transformer for an alternative to RDF. (02)
> They can only manipulate it. The syntax of RDF
> is deceptively simple - as you often mentioned. But machines and humans still
> have to deal with the vocabulary - and it's inherent ambiguity. (03)
John Sowa has a great presentation about this matter [1]. At the end of
the day, this is the very point that's been lost in the noise generated
by RDF/XML :-( (04)
Links: (05)
1. http://slidesha.re/SbfHQG -- Integrating Semantic Systems . (06)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Brunnbauer
> (07)
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