On 11/30/13 12:14 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 11/30/13 9:46 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
>> The fundamental problem of ontology is managing the complexity --
>> and doing so in a way that people can understand.
>>
>> Steve J's greatest talent was in making simple tasks simple,
>> sweeping the complexity under the rug, and keeping it there. *
>
> As much as I admired Steve Jobs he never really understood the value
> in true openness. His elegant interfaces ultimately lead to Apple
> technology silos. Now, compare that to the effect of an HTTP URI as a
> denotation mechanism for anything; serving as a name resolution
> mechanism that's spawned:
>
> 1. Web of Linked Documents (aka. World Wide Web)
> 2. Web of Linked Data (aka. Linked Open Data Cloud)
> 3. Web of Semantically Linked Data (aka. the Semantic Web).
>
> A single piece of architectural ingenuity has taken computing (always
> driven by entity names and descriptor addresses under the covers) for
> a realm eternally compromised by incompatible silos to one that
> naturally enables mass collaboration and interaction.
>
> I can inscribe the following in this mail, and most browser users
> (reading this post) will be able to start making sense of the
> sentences (statements) using natural follow-your-nose interaction
> patterns :
>
> <> <#type> <#Document> .
> <> <#topic> """DBpedia as Tables *and* Extensional & Intensional""" .
> <> <#comment> """A long debate about the utility of RDF ontologies,
> semantics, etc..""" .
> <> <#mentions> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Jobs> .
> <> <#mentions> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Unix> .
> <> <#mentions> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web> .
>
> # I can also include more specific relation semantics, which makes the
> statements above even more meaningful, via the following statements:
>
> <#topic> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentProperty>
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/topic> .
> <#comment> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentProperty>
> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> .
> <#type> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentProperty>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> .
>
> This is the whole thing in a nutshell, the ability to move the power
> of basic natural language sentences in the realm of computing,
> something Steve Jobs never came anywhere close to achieving, because
> he would never be able to cross the hurdle of platform independence,
> it was his way or nothing at all. The same also applies to Bill Gates
> (re., Windows).
>
> Links:
>
> [1] http://bit.ly/15tk1Au -- illustrating HTTP URIs as denotation
> mechanism for giving names to anything.
> [2] http://bit.ly/1bvs4mV -- illustrating how different Name
> Resolution protocols (DNS and HTTP) based abstractions lead to
> different kinds of networks (clouds). (01)
I've quickly fixed an little URI error re., #2 above. (02)
[3] http://bit.ly/18udbAV -- illustrating how different Name Resolution
protocols (DNS and HTTP) based abstractions lead to different kinds of
networks (clouds). (03)
-- (04)
Regards, (05)
Kingsley Idehen
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