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Re: [ontolog-forum] fitness of XML for ontology

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From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:02:41 -0500
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On 2/6/14 4:25 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> Since Ed agrees with me, I agree with him.  Amazon.com, for example,
> uses an XML representation for messages to suppliers and partners.
> But their DB itself is relational.  And their XML encoding is more
> compact and readable than if they had used RDF/XML.
If they used RDF (forget about the RDF/XML notation) they would have a 
much better system. I would have a common username with multiple 
passwords, for instance. In addition, EC2 images would be really easy to 
understand rather that being a leap of fate that could burn a hole in 
your pockets just because its too mangled at the RDBMS level for them to 
produce a sensible UI etc..    (01)

Amazon, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.. are all struggling with:    (02)

1. coreference
2. privacy
3. data integration
4. silo-fication in an era of de-silo-fication.    (03)



--     (04)

Regards,    (05)

Kingsley Idehen 
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