On 4/1/13 10:49 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 3/31/13 9:55 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
>> For point #1, RDF + SPARQL is just YADM -- Yet Another Data Model.
>> It has few advantages and many disadvantages over data models that have
>> been in use for decades. I have no objection to YADM if people find it
>> useful, but I have serious objections to edicting any single data model
>> as a requirement for the Semantic Web.
>
> John,
>
> RDF is just a framework for constructing entity relationship graphs
> endowed with machine-comprehensible entity relationship semantics. Did
> the Semantic Web folks pitched this whole vision poorly? Of course
> they did.
>
> SPARQL is just a declarative query language that's totally superior to
> SQL for intensional interaction with data. Basically, we are looking
> at a contemporary variant of Quel [1] that incorporates many of Codd's
> concerns with SQL [2].
>
> Linked Data (which you don't mention above, but is a source of the
> latest Semantic Web's poor marketing practices) [3] is the piece that
> enables Web-scale super keys via de-referencable URIs that resolve to
> URI referent descriptors (or description documents) that bear RDF
> based content in the form of entity relationship model based
> description graphs.
>
> Interoperability and heterogeneity is baked into the Semantic Web
> stack, as exemplified by its Linked Data underpinnings. IMHO. The only
> thing wrong with all of this is horrible marketing driven by misguided
> zealotry around the letters "R-D-F" .
>
> A Semantic Web of RDF/XML is as dead as XML itself.
>
> A Semantically enhanced Web of Linked Data loosely with ontologies is
> growing in leaps and bounds by the minute :-)
>
> Links:
>
> 1.
>
>http://infolab.cs.unipi.gr/pre-eclass/courses/db/db-post/readings/Ingres-TODS-1976.pdf
>
> -- Ingres Whitepaper
> 2. http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring03/cps216/papers/date-1983.pdf
> -- Codd's criticism of SQL
> 3. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html -- point #3 isn't
> well articulated and remains a point of concern due to easy
> misinterpretation.
>
> (01)
Little correction, I meant to say: (02)
A Semantically enhanced Web of Linked Data that's loosely coupled with
ontologies is growing in leaps and bounds, by the minute :-) (03)
-- (04)
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