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On 25/07/2013 9:27 AM, Kingsley Idehen
wrote:
On
7/25/13 9:03 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
The problem of Boeing trying to find out
"What do we know about lithium
batteries overheating?" is very similar to you and I wanting to
know
"What are the ways to cook quinoa?"
The information needed could be anywhere in many different
formats.
Ontologies may play a minor role but the big technological
breakthroughs
are coming in other places.
Like?
Watson
Google
You
need an Ontology and Linked Data to solve these kinds of problems.
Same applies to the privacy issues associated with PRISM [1] and
TEMPORA [2] .
The
Semantic Web technology stack suffers from a cocktail comprised
of:
1. poor narratives -- RDF zealotry dominates narratives while
defensible terminology and technology genealogy are for heretics!
2. rote learning and recitals of mantras (a variation of point 1)
-- simple challenges to viewpoints tend to end up in the "TimBL
said so" or "W3C said so" bucket
3. participant profile homogeneity -- there is an imbalance
between academia and industry i.e., to many from academia
The discussions here certainly show that!!! Bill Clinton is the only
one who seemed to have the kind of trouble with "is" that would fit
here. Donald Rumsfeld's clear discussion about "unknowns" would have
triggered a week's argument in this forum.
4.
tool profile homogeneity -- a majority of tools are aimed at
so-called "Semantic Web Programmers" (as subClassOf "Web
Programmer) rather than also catering to the needs of end-users,
integrators, systems analysts, architects, domain experts etc.
For sure!
5.
dog-fooding is a rarity -- as in point 2 above, there is typically
little to show relative to all the papers and presentations that
many (outside the Semantic Web community) perceive as "chest
pounding" without practical and demonstrable substance.
Data Virtualization without compromising individual privacy is the
big elephant in the room. Technologies associated with "the
Semantic Web" stack are mighty useful re. addressing this
fundamental challenge that's been compounded by the Web 2.0
phenomena.
When you get beyond the challenge outlined above, you also have to
deal with drill-downs across virtualized data (i.e. semantically
enhanced views over heterogeneous data sources) which is where
Boeing troubles are a very good example. Basically, the Who, What,
Where, When, and deductible Why of the problem they are having
with batteries etc..
I wonder if Boeing has a tool that does all the wonderful things
that I suggested?
Certainly a Google-like tool that can find all the references and
suggest an order of relevance to your needs as expressed in your
question, would be a big help.
Links:
[1]
http://www.google.com/search?q=prism+privacy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
-- PRISM
[2]
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=10_6_8&q=tempora+privacy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
-- TEMPORA.
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